Word: toshio
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...Toshio Yagi Tokyo
Tanaka and his secretary Toshio Enomoto, 50, who was also arrested, were not charged with bribery but with violation of Japan's foreign exchange-control law, a relatively minor offense carrying a prison sentence of up to three years and fines of up to $1,000. But the case will revolve around allegations that Tanaka received $1.7 million in illicit Lockheed money on four occasions in 1973-74 from Hiro Hiyama, then head of the Marubeni Corp., which was Lockheed's sales agent in Japan...
...Toshio, a successful but somewhat lonely novelist in his tifties, decides to visit one of the loves of his youth. Ueno Otoko. This visit awakens feelings of passion and remorse that had lain dormant through the 24 years since their separation; he had deserted the 16-year-old Otoko following her suicide attempt prompted by the death of their premature baby. During the visit, he meets Keiko, Otoko's young protege and lover, in whom he sees the full bloom of Otoko's lost beauty and passion. But aware of Otoko's past. Keiko sets out single mindedly to seduce...
Without a misstep or a false line, the author ensnares his writer protagonist Oki Toshio in an old love. Without quite admitting to himself why he is making the trip, the hero journeys alone from Tokyo to Kyoto to hear the temple bells ring in the new year. In this city of shrines lives Otoko, with whom he had had a passionate affair 20 years earlier. She was a schoolgirl and he a young married man, and a child was stillborn from their love. For a time Otoko's grief unbalanced her. Toshio did not see her again...
Otoko has become a successful artist, Toshio knows, and when the two meet again, as of course they must, she brings with her a beautiful art student named Keiko. It is clear that Otoko still has deep feelings for Toshio. It is also clear that she and Keiko share a lesbian love. And before long it is obvious that Keiko has come to like very much the dismay she causes when she is capriciously cruel. She sets out, giggling, to seduce Toshio and to ruin his son. What is unsatisfactory about this is not that it rings false, but that...