Word: toshimichi
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...fact, it is common practice in Japan to phone a friend at another company and ask permission to use his name for some fictitious entertainment. "I have done it whenever I needed a stiff drink for myself and my staff after a long spell of hard work," admits Toshimichi Natsume, a former Fuji Film Co. executive. "Then a few days later the friend would call back to reciprocate. As the saying goes, samurai must always sympathize with each other." The next step, as many an American could counsel the Japanese, is to use a friend's name without bothering...
Married. Princess Kazuko, 20, daughter of Emperor Hirohito, and Toshimichi Takatsukasa, 26, $20-a-month museum clerk and a cousin of the Dowager Empress Sadako; in Tokyo, after a formal ceremony in which she gave up her imperial rank and privileges (the bridegroom's family was reduced to commoner status upon adoption of the 1947 Constitution...
...sent his frock-coated vice chief chamberlain directly to the bridegroom-elect. "Their Majesties, the Emperor and Empress," hissed the imperial emissary, bowing low, "would like to have their daughter married to Honorable Takatsukasa. What are his feelings on the subject?" "I accept," said 26-year-old Toshimichi Takatsukasa, a $20-a-month clerk in the Traffic Museum, bowing equally...
...very nice, gentle girl." She in turn found a common interest with him in their fondness for classical Western music. As for romance-"It hasn't started fully yet," said a palace intimate last week. "It will begin from now on." "The married life of Blondie," added bridegroom Toshimichi Takatsukasa, from his broad knowledge of U.S. comics, "seems wonderfully...
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