Word: yoshiko
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...scuba diving and started skiing to ensure good exercise through the winter. He loved to water-ski and even crafted a water-resistant microphone on a handle, connected by a wire on the ski rope to a speaker on the boat so he could relay instructions to his wife Yoshiko. He was so proud of this invention. To simply have a good time, he would invent and perfect such a product...
...Yoshiko Kawada Hachioji, Japan...
...human beings. There have been complaints that the response of the authorities was too slow because of its bureaucracy. They are deserved. But this earthquake was much more destructive than the government ever imagined. It is easy to criticize, but everyone has to learn from this horrendous experience. Yoshiko Kawada Hachioji, Japan It happened all of a sudden in predawn darkness. My house was almost destroyed. It was a nightmare. Like a thunderbolt, violent movement ran through our street. After this tragic moment, deep silence came back in the darkness, and then I heard a voice crying for help...
...Bracelet, by Yoshiko Uchida (Philomel; $14.95). A clear, direct look at social injustice is especially hard in children's literature, whose traditions say wrongs must be made right. In 1942 the Japanese-American author was sent with her family to a detention camp, and this story and Joanna Yardley's warm, elegiac illustrations recall a time for which good explanations are still not available. The title refers to a bracelet given the Japanese-American heroine Emi, who's about eight, by her Anglo friend Laurie. The gift and the remembered friendship allow Emi to hope that peace and trust will...
...Older Japanese need all the help they can get to break their stubborn devotion to work, a legacy of the postwar struggle to rebuild the economy. For younger people, untouched by those hard times, taking time off is easier. Yoshiko Murata, 23, who works in public affairs at Toyota, last year took four vacation trips, two each to Europe and Hawaii. Last May she went to Bali and loved it. "My friends and I were reluctant to leave," recalls Murata, "but we said, 'Let's work hard so we can come back again.' " Her boss, Kimiaki Kuroki, 42, has taken...