Word: yoshio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airplanes off the coast of northeast Asia, pick up radioactive dust from Soviet bomb tests, they give out no information whatever. Russian and British airborne atomic detectives are just as uncommunicative. But the Japanese, sitting innocently bombless between Soviet and U.S. test areas, can talk freely. Last week Dr. Yoshio Sugiura of the government's Meteorological Research Institute told a Kyoto meeting of the Japan Chemistry Society what he had deduced from "ashes of death" that fell in his own backyard...
Public Enemy No. 2. In Tokyo, Yoshio Yusawa, serving a six-year prison term for 397 robberies, asked to have his case reopened, explained that he had only committed 37, but confessed to the larger total when police asked him: "Why not be Japan's No. 1 thief...
...Tokyo, Pascual Perez, a bull-necked little (107 3/4 Ibs.) battler from Argentina, swarmed all over Japan's Yoshio Shirai for 15 rounds and won the world's flyweight championship...
...Tokyo, skinny (5 ft. 5 in., 112 lbs.) World Flyweight Champion Yoshio Shirai successfully defended his title against the Philippines' Tanny Campo in a plodding 15-round bout...
...worst blow to Japanese Communists came from within, when the Cominform publicly blasted Party Strategist Sanzo Nozaka, a Popular Front advocate, for not using more "revolutionary" methods. Japanese Politburo Member Yoshio Shiga accused Nozaka of "Titoism," caused a still unhealed intraparty schism...