Word: yasuhiko
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...they packed with computer chips and high-tech features, but each also sports a new, high-tech look, one that owes more to the smooth curves of the video camcorder than to the basic rectangular design that has dominated 35-mm cameras since the 1924 Leica Model "A." Says Yasuhiko Nakayama, the veteran video-camera designer who created the Chinon Genesis: "We wanted a unique design concept to match the new type of camera...
...Government needed a heavyhanded, blue-blooded officer to rope in some of its maverick commanders in China. It chose Prince Higashi-Kuni. He dressed down his notorious relative, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, who stood by at the rape of Nanking and subsequently at the "Death March" from Bataan. In 1941, Higashi-Kuni was put in charge of the important home defense command. In that post he is said to have threatened the execution of U.S. airmen after the famed Doolittle raid on Tokyo...
...highest Japanese officer in China's former capital Nanking, His Highness Lieut. General Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, this week expressed to Third Secretary John M. Allison of the U. S. Embassy his apologies...
Died. Princess Nobuko Asaka, 42, aunt of Japan's Emperor Hirohito. eighth daughter of the late Emperor Meiji, wife of Prince Yasuhiko; of nephritis; in Tokyo...