Word: tomito
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...Jump off the roof of a department store," would have been the advice of Chum Masako Tomito, had the emergency occurred a few months earlier. At the time of her friend's perplexity, however, all Tokyo's department stores, tired of having patrons jump off their roofs, had hired vigilant guards and fenced their cornices with barbed wire. Today every high building in Tokyo is thus equipped to foil the desperate. Miss Tomito wracked her brain, then had an inspiration. "Dearest!" she cried, "if you cannot bear the perplexities of maturing womanhood I can take you to just...
...most Japanese would-be suicides, Miss Matsumoto then sat down and composed her note of farewell to life. Next the two girls boarded one of President Hayashi's steamers for Mihara-yama, then merely considered a picturesque volcano. The historic day was Feb. 11, 1933. Miss Tomito, after seeing her friend jump safely to certain Death, tripped ecstatically away, explained her brilliant idea next day to chums at Jissen Girls' College. Instant persecution followed. Pecking newshawks gave Miss Tomito no rest, blew her up into a national sensation and started the procession which has brought to grim Mihara...
...Kojiro Tomito will speak on "Japanese Lacquer Work" in Gallery 9 of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts tomorrow afternoon at 2.45 o'clock. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Department of Chinese and Japanese...
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