Word: yoshio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nowhere to be seen or heard was the top purgee, Secretary General Kyuichi Tokuda. Equally elusive were the usually vocal Ritsu Ito, ousted Communist theorist and spokesman, and Yoshio Shiga, leading party advocate of violent action, whose "tough" policy had brought on the MacArthur order. From shrewd, slippery Sanzo Nozaka, pre-purge chairman of the Japanese Politburo, came only ironic speculation. Said Nozaka: "Now that I have so much time on my hands ... I may try to become a movie critic. Or else, now that summer is here, perhaps I can start an ice candy [Japanese Popsicle] shop...
...Japanese Communists, Kyuichi Tokuda and Yoshio Shiga, occupied adjoining prison cells for 17 years, used to tap messages to each other through the wall. Since they were freed at war's end, communication between Tokuda and Shiga has grown more difficult. Threes weeks ago it broke down badly in a row that all but split Japan's Communist Party...
...elaborate hairdo in preparation for the evening's entertainment. Heiji Tomioka, sake merchant, and his son were filling bottles and stone jugs for delivery to the crowded inns. In a warehouse by the docks, Kazuyoshi Kitamura was pouring gasoline from a drum into a five-gallon can. Yoshio Suzuki lounged about, watching Kazuyoshi. Yoshio, a hulking youth, as slow-witted as Lennie in John Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men, had an unlit cigarette in his mouth; he pointed to it and glanced a question at Kazuyoshi. "This gasoline won't burn," said Kazuyoshi with a sarcasm that...