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...long since looted everything else). The searchers also found Kusunose's body. But it no longer faced the sacred mountain. Before he died, Kusunose had found the "strength to turn away. The diary explained why: "It would be disrespectful if I died in the presence of revered Fuji...
...Hiroshige shaved his head, became a Buddhist novice. But he kept on traveling and making prints of the sights of Japan (Thirty-Six Views of Fuji, etc.). Eleven years later, mortally sick with cholera, the master wrote a cheerful poem to celebrate his departure to the Buddhist Heaven...
Last summer Matsumoto again proved he was worthy of his nickname by climbing 12,395-ft. Mt. Fuji carrying a heavy stone on his back. Next he ran 56 miles from Shirakawa to Fukushima. Last week he topped all previous feats by trotting nonstop from his hometown to Tokyo's Ueno Station. The distance": 117 miles, five times the historic run from Marathon to Athens. The time: 29 hours...
From the Iowa, anchored in Sagami Bay, TIME Correspondent John Walker radioed: "Off our port beam we saw the vast bulk of the holy mountain, Fuji, almost concealed in a wreath of clouds which could have been a mourning robe of traditional Japanese white - the color of death." The advance guard of airborne invaders landed at Atsugi; their transports disgorged aviation engineers, jeeps, gasoline, rations, radios, to prepare for the grand entry of the 11th Airborne Division and of MacArthur himself. Between Atsugi and the fleet was the Emperor's seaside palace at Hayama, destined to be MacArthur...
That was beside the point, snapped the Foreign Office. Britain had deliberately insulted Japan by halting a vessel "almost at the base of Mount Fuji" - i. e., 35 miles off shore. The Asama's unfortunate Cap tain Yoshisada Vatanabe was relieved of his job for "misconduct" - i. e., stopping his ship when the British cruiser fired a shot across his bows. Japan promised to "take steps" against Britain and got around to discouraging Germans from traveling on Japanese ships. As if deliberately trying to remove the last vestige of consistency, a Japanese cruiser stopped a British coastal steamer, asked...