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...Soon, he owned six factories in Tokyo, making communications parts for the Japanese army. Negishi took off his overalls, moved with his wife and three children into a fine residential district. He invested some of his profits in miscellaneous real estate, including a pleasant country inn located in picturesque Chiba county, near Tokyo...
...burst. Heavy Allied bombardments smashed most of his factory equipment. By war's end, the Negishi Manufacturing Co. was reduced to one dilapidated repair shop. For a while Negishi kept on trying to find orders. But times were bad. He grew disgusted, retired to his country inn in Chiba, where he found pleasant company in the inn's manager, a lissome 23-year-old girl...
Died. Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, 80, Hirohito's Polonius and Premier on V-J day; of a liver ailment; in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. A cautious navyman, lie was hated as a "moderate" by the military jingoists, who left him for dead in the 1936 young-officer insurrection, hounded him into hiding after the 1945 surrender...
...front, Fifty Bells's ears were assailed by the screams of sirens and the drone of enemy bombing planes over Tokyo. Next morning, when the bombers had gone away, he was nowhere to be found. Without Fifty Bells, the Akais moved to Chiba, where they stayed until Japan's surrender...
Military Government officials cared less about these party maneuvers than about the lack of connection between political and economic issues. In Chiba prefecture, however, occurred one small sign that politics is related to the people's lives. A farmer's wife, greeted by an aging villager near the Toofuku Temple voting place, said: "Now you have made me forget the name I've tried so hard to memorize." Said the villager: "Then vote as I did. Just write in 'kome' " (rice...