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...Carey arrives in Tokyo loaded with clever theories, his earnest questions already translated into Japanese. But he meets with frustration again and again. A visit with Yoshindo Yoshihara, one of the last swordsmiths working in Tokyo, is an exercise in polite disappointment, as the master deflects and deflates all questions, making it clear that the meaning of his craft, like the ability to handle his swords, can't cross cultural borders. "We would not know the etiquette, how to sit, how to hold the scabbard or the hilt, how to slide the blade out by the back surface only...
...Jiro Yoshihara's Japanese Sunday argues for the universality, if not the naturalness, of the abstract language: his melancholy picture looks extraordinarily like the work of Manhattan's Willem de Kooning, which Yoshihara has never seen...
...half the distance to Nemuro when a radio message from Anne Lindbergh was picked up by the Ochishi radio station. It said: "Unknown where we are because of fog" and asked what was the best place to come down. "Muroton Bay'' (where Japanese Aviator Seiji Yoshihara recently cached gasoline while trying to fly to the U.S.) was the answer. The Lindberghs looped back but failed to reach Muroton Bay and landed instead on the lee side of Ketoi, a volcanic, sparsely vegetated dot among inhospitable Kurile Islands. The Kuriles are inhabited mainly by a people known as hairy...
...without hazard. In 1924 the famed U. S. Army round-world flyers fought fog, wind and snow along the Alaska-Aleutian route (that was in May). Five years later the Russian plane Land of the Soviets crossed eastward from Siberia to Alaska. Last month little Seiji ("Kite Crazy") Yoshihara, armed with Japanese goodwill to President Hoover, flew a small Junkers seaplane from Tokyo as far as Shana in the Kuriles. There his ship was so badly buffeted that he temporarily abandoned the flight, returned to Tokyo for a new plane...
...Pilot Yoshihara proposed to make 20 stops en route to San Francisco, via Petropavlovsk, Alberta; the Aleutian Islands; Seward, Alaska; Vancouver. He carries no radio, will fly far off the regular track of ocean vessels. His worst hazard: Fogs, while he tries to locate his re-fuelling stations along the 6,268 mi. route to San Francisco. A forced landing in the bergstrewn Bering Sea would allow little hope of survival. Smiling little Seiji expected to complete his flight late this month...