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Brother Fast Ears. In 1954, when he was secretary-general of Yoshida's ruling Liberal Party, Sato resigned over charges that he had taken $150,000 in bribes to promote legislation favorable to big business. After a libel trial that lasted two years, he finally collected $138.50 damages from a magazine. Sato coolly defended himself: "My job was to raise party funds; I did nothing that any politician who knew his job would not have done...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art still holds the record as the museum's most heavily attended architectural show. Last week the same display was being reconstructed in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. Books on Japanese gardens (most recent: Gardens of Japan by the late Tetsuro Yoshida, famed Japanese architect) have become a must for the modern architect's library. After 14 centuries the art form started by that legendary nobleman is gaining new and important ground in the West...
...regret to see in your July 8 issue news about a murder committed by a Japanese young man who you said was a student of our educational institution. We ask you to correct this information. Kenjiro Yoshida came up to Tokyo in April 1954 and registered as a student at the college of economics of our university. However, he did not attend any class after his registration. In spite of repeated advice from school, he did not even send an answer to the administration office. We finally settled the cancellation of his name from the register in March 1956, before...
...year-old student at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University was just plain bored: somehow, he decided, he would have to get rid of his tiresome prostitute sweetheart. And so, one day last fall, Kenjiro Yoshida invited her around to his dormitory and strangled her with a necktie. Three months later, police found her body under the dormitory floor...
...afternoon-nap Prime Minister." Worst of all, leaders of the powerful business associations that had bankrolled his rise to power were publicly beginning to suggest that it was time for him to resign-much as they did two years before to signal the ouster of Premier Shigeru Yoshida...