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Japanese surgeons can perform miracles. Jujin Hospital's Dr. Fumio Umezawa was once asked to remodel an unknown Hong Kong actress to look like a star who had died in the middle of a movie; his work was so perfect that superstitious studio hands swore they were seeing a ghost. After nearly three decades of plastic surgery, in fact, Dr. Umezawa admits to only one failure. It involved a Japanese movie actress who had come to him for the insertion of bags of silicone jelly to build up her breasts. Shortly after the operation, she had to go before...
...ambition to find new antibiotics, visited Nagoya University (230 miles west of Tokyo) in 1952, one of the first things he did was to spoon up a sample of soil from the medical-compound garden. Hopefully, he labeled it K-2J, sent it to his ex-chief, Microbiologist Hamao Umezawa, at Tokyo University. There it became one of the 1,200 soil samples tested every year to see whether they harbor microbes capable of producing substances to kill other microbes...
...Jujin's eyelid surgery technique was devised by the hospital's director, Dr. Fumio Umezawa, 52, who got into plastic surgery after his own child was disfigured in an accident, needed extensive reconstruction. "The thing I like best," says Umezawa, "is to stand at the door and watch the faces of the patients as they leave. The happiness they feel enhances the work we have done for them. They look beautiful...
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