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...most of the wild animals at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo were killed by their keepers who feared they might escape during air raids. Since then, visitors who daily flock to the zoo have had to content themselves with housecats, hogs, a Jersey cow, stuffed lions & tigers. The government has been deluged with children's pleas that real live wild animals, especially elephants, be restored to the Ueno Zoo, but exchange difficulties have made it practically impossible...
Pandit Nehru ordered the External Affairs Ministry to consult with the provinces and princely states forthwith, set about procuring funds and transportation to get a beast to the Ueno...
...Kind. In Tokyo, after visitors had jammed Ueno Zoo to celebrate "Be Kind to Animals Day," officials announced that a favorite giraffe had died of overeating...
...American bombings forced keepers at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo to kill their dangerous charges. Since then the crowds (70,000 daily*) that come to the zoo have had to content themselves with substitutes. They watch six monkeys and two house cats play in the huge polar bear caves, stare at the modest antics of a Jersey cow, now the sole occupant of the wild boar...
...Matsumoto again proved he was worthy of his nickname by climbing 12,395-ft. Mt. Fuji carrying a heavy stone on his back. Next he ran 56 miles from Shirakawa to Fukushima. Last week he topped all previous feats by trotting nonstop from his hometown to Tokyo's Ueno Station. The distance": 117 miles, five times the historic run from Marathon to Athens. The time: 29 hours...