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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...
Recently, the people of Ueno were called on to vote (in a by-election) for a representative in the upper house of Japan's Diet. On election day there was also a fireworks display at a nearby Shinto shrine. The local political boss canvassed the villagers, asked those who wanted to see the fireworks to hand over their admission tickets to the polls, so that Ueno might still have a patriotically large number of ballots cast. In one ward a bulletin was circulated demanding that people who did not intend to vote bring their tickets to the ward leader...
...Japan's newly enfranchised women, reported these scandalous goings-on to her family. They did not correspond to what May Moon had learned in her civics books. So May Moon wrote an indignant letter to Asahi Shimbun, Japan's most influential newspaper. Government investigators moved into Ueno...
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...
...Sunday at Ueno Zoo, starchy Premier Shigeru Yoshida made his bid for peace by gingerly thrusting a bunch of bananas at India's good-will ambassador, an elephant presented to Japan by India's Prime Minister Nehru...