Word: tsuru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shigeto Tsuru '35, who is in town for the 50th reunion of his undergraduate class, has for the past decade been editorial adviser of The Asa n Shimbun, a Tokyo-based newspaper with a circulation of close to eight million...
...Tsuru, who after World War II served as vice-minister of the Japanese Economic Stabilisation Board, 'became president of Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University in 1972, a post he held until...
...Tsuru wrote in his Fiftieth Aniversary Report that he had been pressured four times within the last two decades to run as governor of Tokyo...
...Some of my American friends, including Ken Galbraith, suggested that I should run, but Masako, my wife, took a rather ambivalent position: that is, she would support my candidacy if she were not Mrs. Tsuru, implying that a need for divorce action in case of my running." Tsuru wrote in his report...
...Tsuru is also considered a founder of the Japanese environmental movement...