Word: yamaguchi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outdone, Japanese declared Miss Shizue Yamaguchi, 28, the most beautiful woman in the newly elected Japanese Diet. In the first election in which Japanese women have ever run, Miss Yamaguchi, a Social Democrat, was elected to represent Tokyo's First District. When not legislating, she works in her father's bicycle factory, where she is typist and sometimes head cook...
...Geisha houses, brightly kimonoed girls plucked their banjo-like samisen and trilled sentimental Japanese favorites like the Rain Blues, the Song of Beauty, the Innocence Duet. When a boisterous American asked for the Japanese national anthem, the girls refused but obliged with You Are My Sunshine. Toshiko Yamaguchi, once one of Japan's most popular singers, came home from a Shanghai internment camp with a new repertoire that included Star Dust...
...historic" election-the nearest thing they had ever had to a free vote. There was campaign give-&-take as 2,781 candidates, representing 257 parties, wrangled for 466 parliamentary seats. They ranged from sturdy Kenshin Izumi of the Buddhist priesthood, which recently organized for politics, to efficient Miss Shidzue Yamaguchi, a typist sponsored by Christian Leader Toyohiko Kagawa. A few Communists had been stoned. The Communists had mobbed the residence of Premier Baron Kijuro Shidehara. One radical had even called the Emperor "that guy," a bit of new liberty the legality of which was under study by the high courts...
...make it clean." We attended to cleaning up the area. The furious assault of the enemy commenced. . . . Two men pathetically committed suicide due to severe wounds. The lieutenant and the pharmacist section bade farewell and promised to meet at the Yasukumi Shrine after death. I, with Lieut. Yamaguchi, was absorbed into the command section and was very happy...
...fourth son of one Sanjuro Matsuoka and a woman who at 90 still lives in the Yamaguchi countryside. The story goes that Yosuke Matsuoka's family is of the Choshu clan-one of the two daimiates, or fiefs, of western Japan (the other is Satsuma), which less than 20 years before his birth had led in the destruction of Japan's feudalistic shogunate, and which emerged dominant in the Japanese Army. Whatever the truth about this glowing connection, Mr. Matsuoka speaks of himself proudly as a Choshu...