Word: uchida
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...room homes and are married," explains Mrs. Take Kikuchi, a diminutive widow of 70, who lives in a nursing home on the outskirts of Tokyo. "I shuttled endlessly between them, but at last the message was so deafening that I had to leave them and come here." Adds Kotaro Uchida, 88, a retired Tokyo printer: "My son after the war told me that this thing transplanted from America called democracy meant everybody for himself and that he was therefore relieved of his duty to support me. I disagreed, but what could...
...Titles like Ravines of Desire and Agonies of Newlyweds, publicity teasers about "thrills and terrors in brothel lynching" instantly proved such big box office that eroduction totals have doubled every year since. This year the output will be 120, and their hottest starlet, lusty 18-year-old Takako Uchida, has not been given a day off since last spring. By next year the figure should reach 200, or half the features produced in Japan and as many as Hollywood turns out in a year and a half...
...March 1918. A refugee train was on its way from Petrograd to Harbin carrying a polyglot group of diplomatic officials, business men and bankers. On board were the staff of the American embassy in Russia, headed by First Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank of New York (including myself) ; YMCA and YWCA workers; trade representatives; and George Sokolsky, editor [at .that time...
Died. Count Yasuya Uchida, 70, onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., Austria, Russia, four times Japan's Foreign Minister; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. He was recalled from retirement, put in charge of the Japanese Foreign Office for the last time in 1932, superintended Japan's withdrawal from the League, its seizure of Manchuria...
According to the Japanese Government Railways, the jujitsu match was for the best two falls out of three. First, Minister Uchida threw Mrs. Mayer, then she threw him. After that "they feinted and tossed and writhed and grunted for a full half hour" on the matting until Minister Uchida thoroughly subdued Mrs. Mayer and won the match. Said he gallantly: "She is the most adept Englishwoman at jujitsu I have ever...