Word: toshio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week he moved swiftly to stem a total collapse of his Cabinet by shifting one of his loyal followers, Masayoshi Ohira, 64, from Foreign Minister to Fukuda's post at Finance. He named two other well-known and respected L.D.P. veterans to the other vacant posts: Toshio Kimura, 65, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kichizo Hosoda, 62, to Hori's old job. From now on, however, the abrasive, aggressive Tanaka will have to tread much more tenderly. Fukuda and his allies will be waiting to exploit any false step...
...stream of delegations, mostly of young people, called at the Israeli embassy in Tokyo to apologize. Kyoto University President Toshio Maeda, summoned to the Ministry of Education, bowed low to express regret and admit that he was "at a loss how to apologize to the nation for the fact that two of the three culprits have been students at our university." Education Minister Saburo Takami, in turn, apologized for shortcomings in the educational system, while Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda spoke of the dishonor to the nation...
...internationally important duty." At a Shinto shrine, taxi company officials offered prayers "to keep our drivers from getting involved in accidents." At the Mitsukoshi department store, each day has begun with mass English lessons piped over the public address system. And at the Chitose Airport, Lieut. Colonel Toshio Tojo, son of the notorious World War II Prime Minister, has 200 soldiers keeping the runways free of snow. The scene is Sapporo, Japan, and the drama is the 1972 Winter Olympics. After six years and $688 million worth of preparation, the Sapporo games will be opened this week by Emperor Hirohito...
...error beyond calculation. No single man can be blamed, and no villains or heroes emerge from this foundering, slipshod-and hypnotic-drama. That judgment must hold not only for those who lived it but also for those who filmed it. Three directors, one American (Richard Fleischer) and two Japanese, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, have managed to move crowds and planes, but not the viewer. They have shown events, but not contexts; national characters, but not national character. Originally, Master Director Akiro Kurosawa (Rashomori) was signed to oversee the Japanese sequences. He might have revealed the complex psychologies that...