Word: uchimura
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Scriptwriter Naoya Uchimura and Producer Hiroshi Nagayama had done their best to get Eriko married off. Last year they had it all set: Eriko and her suitor would wed, live happily ever after, off the airwaves. But radio men at the U.S. Civilian Information & Education office were horrified, adamantly "recommended" that the show go on. Eriko, they felt, had a mildly democratizing influence on listeners. Says Nagayama: "It was most sorrowful. We couldn't fight back; it was practically an order." Dutifully, Uchimura wrote the groom out of the script, replaced him with a dawdling suitor who would obviously...
...recommendations to one side, Author Uchimura finally gave in last week to his Japanese audience. Eriko, he announced, would call it quits come March. As a matter of fact, said Uchimura, Eriko could be disposed of with ease: "The script is so complicated now that we can end it any time. No one will even know the difference...