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...decades while it ensured employment and economic growth. No longer assured of that work and pay, Japanese youth are anxious about the future. They must support themselves without the sense of security that existed in the past. The election is their triumph - not just that of the opposition. Yasuhito Sakamoto, Kanagawa, Japan...
...economy only, and our society has been wholly shaped by the zeal to work and work and make more money. The article about the bubble bursting in 1989 reminds me that we have lost not only our financial vigor, but a larger sense of moral purpose in the country. Yasuhito Sakamoto, Kanagawa, Japan...
Died. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu. 50, younger brother of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; of a liver ailment complicated by chronic pleurisy; in his villa at Kugenuma, Japan. The Oxford-educated prince was in ill health during most of World War II, sat it out with Tokyo's military garrison. At war's end Chichibu became Western-minded again, avidly read American comic strips ("Li'l Abner ... I can't understand...
Leading this select list were the three brothers of Emperor Hirohito. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, 43, educated at Oxford, a lover of English tweeds and Swiss ski slopes, once likened the code of Bushido to the chivalry of King Arthur's Round Table; he served with Tokyo's military garrison. Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu, 40, more retiring than his older brother, was last week reported giving counsel to the Emperor on government reform. Prince Takahito Mikasa, 30, who likes the strenuous life, once made an eye-filling picture while training as an Army cavalryman at Yatsu Beach near Tokyo...
...Japan paid joyous homage, for the bridegroom is Yasuhito, Chichibu-No-Miya, 26,-Prince and heir-presumptive to the Throne;* and the bride is Setsuko Matsudaira, 19, daughter of popular Tsuneo Matsudaira, who was Japan's Ambassador at Washington until he went home for the Imperial Marriage...