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OHAYO. The easy rhythm of middle-class existence in suburban Tokyo is the plot and soul of a gentle family comedy by the late Yasujiro Ozu, Japan's most celebrated film poet...
Ohayo is Japanese for "good morning." With that greeting, day begins for the teeming inhabitants of a crowded modern housing development near Tokyo. And the lives of nearly all of them are woven into the texture of this delicate, homespun comedy by the late Yasujiro Ozu. Virtually unknown in the West, Ozu died in 1963 as Japan's most honored film maker, a man whose gentle art was eclipsed outside his homeland by the blazing, exportable genius of Kurosawa...
Owned by Japan's billion dollar Seibu Industries, whose holdings include Tokyo's fastest growing department store, a railroad and 36 hotels, Seibu of Los Angeles is the latest pet project of Seibu Chairman Yasujiro Tsutsumi, 74. During a 1959 visit to the U.S., Tsutsumi was shocked at the low quality of the Japanese products that he saw in well-to-do American homes. Convinced that there was a large unexploited market for Japan's wide range of quality merchandise, he decided that the way to tap it was not through specialty stores (such as Manhattan...
When 17-year-old Yasujiro Aoki was told that he had leprosy, he did what a devout Buddhist should. Dressed in white robes and carrying a walking stick, he made a lengthy pilgrimage to the 88 holy places of Buddhism on his native Japanese island of Shikoku, visiting each three times. But at the end of the last lap, having found no cure, he did what a devout Buddhist should not: he turned in at the gate of an Anglican missionary hospital...
...already passed the lower house, and Yoshida had the votes to pass it in the upper house as well; but before that could happen, the lower house had to vote a two-day extension of the Diet session. To prevent this, a posse of Socialist members corralled Speaker Yasujiro Tsutsumi in a corner of the chamber, thus kept him from ascending to the chair. A beefy judo expert, Tsutsumi broke through the Socialist ranks and sought refuge in a caucus room...