Word: ueno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many generations Ichiro Ishikawa's ancestors had lived in Ueno, a remote, semifeudal village in Shizuoka prefecture. Ueno's rich, black volcanic soil yielded rice, corn, sweet potatoes and garden vegetables. There were nightingales, cuckoos, profusely blooming wild chrysanthemums; and, in summer, gorgeous swarms of red dragonflies. Life in Ueno was good...
Japan's children had a gift to exchange for the elephant presented to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (TIME, Oct. 17). Tokyo's Master Toymaker Jiro Aidawa had promised to make them something free of charge. Last week he displayed his handiwork to the delighted youngsters. It was an animal band. A toy monkey waved a baton, a bear scraped on a fiddle, a giraffe shook a tambourine, an elephant pounded a drum. The tune they would play for Nehru's ear was strictly made in the U.S.A...