Word: toyama
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...almost never cite the qualities that have kept it flourishing in the West: beauty, emotional appeal, elegance. Instead, they speak of concert music almost as a commodity, whose import and manufacture they have undertaken with characteristic zeal. "We have adopted the Western style in our social life," explains Kazuyuki Toyama, a leading Tokyo music critic. "We wear Western clothes, not kimonos; we watch baseball. So do we respect Western culture, and reflect it in our daily life...
...TOYAMA...
Lonely Heart. In Toyama, Japan, Choji Kato, 27, placed an advertisement in a teen-age magazine pleading for female companionship, seduced 96 of the 150 girls who answered, was arrested when police started investigating the series of robberies he had committed to defray dating expenses...
...this activity is proceeding with no central organization, no church buildings, with few Bibles and hardly any hymnbooks. . . . The only Japanese Scripture in Ishikawa [Okinawa's capital] is ten pages of foolscap, which Mr. Toyama had written down from memory for his own devotions...
...Toyama's words: 'Send us missionaries. We need them. But tell your people to send us men who are not so much concerned as to whether or not we smoke or dance. Send us men who have a message of internationalism through Christian brotherhood, whose devotion is to truth and love, not passing fads and fancies...