Word: yomiuri
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Eager as Dodger fans, people began lining up, fortified with fish, rice and camp stools, outside the great, grey Korakuen Stadium 30 hours before the first game against the Yomiuri Giants, the all-Japan champions. The Americans won, 7 to 0 but the Japanese didn't seem to mind. "The Americans will obviously continue the winning," explained one earnest, bespectacled university student, "because of the legs and arms which are longer...
...Star" baseball team (including Joe DiMaggio, who hit a single and drew a walk in three times at bat), an exhibition game over the Yomiuri Giants, 7-0, in Tokyo (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Japanese press welcomed the men back to public life like returning heroes, but also sounded some editorial warnings. Said Tokyo's Yomiuri: "People welcome their badly needed talent ... but people have not forgotten these men's actions which led to disaster . . . Let them search their souls and take their good fortune humbly...
...ideological grounds might be used once the occupation had ended. But among the Japanese newspapermen the appeals of the discharged Communists met with little success, and few believed the Communist assertion that innocent people had been fired. Said balding, stocky Shoji Yasuda, managing editor of Tokyo's Yomiuri: "These people have been under surveillance for a long time and there's no mistake." The general public, conditioned by the Korean war and previous occupation directives against Japan's Communists (TIME, June 19), took the news with a shrugging "Tozen da [It's only natural...
Last week, the clouds were lifting. Priestess Aiko had sent Wu charging back into competition. Without so much as a practice jump he squelched squat Utaro Hashimoto, the come-lately champion, breezed through the Yomiuri newspaper's big tournament, hoped to reclaim his old title by early 1947 (one hard-fought go match took him three years to finish). Wu explained that he was not using his own mind at all; his moves were divinely inspired...