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...DIED. Hideki Yukawa, 74, Japanese physicist who, while working as a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1949, became his country's first Nobel prizewinner for his theories on subatomic particles, which predicted the existence of the meson, a bit of energized matter believed to hold the atomic nucleus together; of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
Though the appointment has evoked little if any comment in either Japan or the U.S., the selection of Tojo is an ironic one. Mitsubishi's new boss is the son of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime Prime Minister who directed the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and was later tried and executed by an Allied war crimes tribunal...
Once upon a time, a savvy Japanese hotelman named Hideki Yokoi came up with the ultimate gimmick. He spent $300,000 for a phoenix-shaped, 22-karat, solid gold bathtub, and installed it 14 years ago in the basement of his Funabara resort hotel about 100 miles south of Tokyo. A bit larger than normal, the tub holds a cramped two, and Yokoi was able to charge honeymooners and Very Good Friends $2.80 apiece for a five-minute soak that he claimed would prolong their lives for at least one year. For $4, a photographer burnished the moments for posterity...
...Hideki Yokoi's good fortune is not unalloyed: he worries about protecting his treasure. Now he requires that his male receptionist inspect the bathers before they undress to see if they are carrying hammers, gimlets or any other sharp instruments. Scrapes and scratches have appeared mysteriously on the tub, and Yokoi fears that his guests might be trying to recoup their costs under their fingernails...
Later, when A-bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein expressed deep regret. After the war, he apologized personally ?and in tears?to visiting Japanese Physicist Hideki Yukawa. On another occasion, he said, "Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing for the bomb...