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Word: umezawa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: New Angles | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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