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...will a revamping of party practices be enough to lure back voters? Of key concern are the farmers who deserted the party in droves, complaining that the L.D.P. had capitulated to foreign trade pressures by opening Japan to food imports. Charged Masatoshi Wada, a leader of the 10,000-strong Shuso Agricultural Cooperative: "The L.D.P. promised to fight against liberalization at any cost, and then gave up the fight. We can no longer trust them at their face value...
...energy use. It decreed an increase in oil supplies doled out to industry. To be sure, buildings still cannot be heated to over 68° F., gasoline stations must shut down on Sundays and holidays, and neon lights are banned after business hours. But those measures, says Toshinobu Wada, an official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, remain merely "to foster a psychology of energy conservation...
...military insist that the program has a payoff for them. "The more people come to share the barracks life with our troops, the more deeply will our organization be understood," says General Shoji Wada, commander of the central Japan military district. Company executives see an even more practical gain. In army camps, says Toshio Shiba-yama, director of Tokyo Mutual, "young people are bound to learn something about the vital importance of team work." This spring, for the third year in a row, Japan Air Lines sent its new crop of employees to an artillery camp. Company President Shizuma Matsuo...
...color shots which won the picture an Academy Award for the best foreign film of 1954 and a Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival were designed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, the director, and Sanzo Wada, his color adviser. They posed each seene with the care of the Japanese artist who spends hours arranging a few leaves and a flower into a composition of harmony and meaning. Whether the camera peers out between the spokes of a wheel at a moment of battle, or whether it regards the almost abstract lines of Japanese architecture, the eye always has enough time...
...Gratitude. Mr. Wada, apparently more hurt by gibes at himself than by revelations of his inhumanity, compressed his lips, looked wanly at the floor. Finally, Tokuda and Wada heard their sentences. The "Mad Doctor" would be hanged. Mr. Wada would get life imprisonment instead of the rope; he had merely been an interpreter relaying orders...