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...Hiroshima over. When the news broke that this month his tour of duty with the U.S. Information Service will end, local notables protested. The daily Chugoku Press has printed a suggestion that the Fotouhis be made honorary citizens of Hiroshima. In a letter to the U.S. consul general in Kobe, the mayor of the city, the governor of the prefecture and the president of the university asked that Fotouhi be kept on at least two more years. "He has done more than any other person could ever have done," they wrote, "in the interest of the better and fuller understanding...
...Help Wanted" signs are out this week in Kobe and Yokohama and in Osaka girl cotton workers are whipping about on roller skates to speed movement up and down the humming spindle lines. In Osaka's neon-doused Dotombori section, cabarets and bars are putting up "Off Limits to Foreigners" signs in recognition of the fact that Japanese businessmen, and not G.I.s, are today's big spenders...
Kamikaze. In Kobe, Japan, Taxi Driver Terumitsu Sano became suspicious of the jittery antics of Passenger Akimitsu Tatesu, deposited him at a police station, learned that he had planned to blow himself up in the cab with 20 sticks of dynamite...
Converted. Everywhere the reception was enthusiastic-even from people who had never heard live Western music, e.g., the Okinawans, who kept moving their heads to see where each new sound was coming from. In one community, between Kobe and Osaka, Conductor Walter Hendl, 38, stepping outside between numbers for a breath of air, discovered hundreds of Japanese who had been unable to get in standing with their ears pressed to the wall...
...busy, windswept days last week, Japan's Premier toured Osaka and Kobe, the Pittsburgh of Japan, in a brisk, U.S.-style election campaign. He made a big hit. A caretaker Premier for only ten weeks, savvy Old Politician Hatoyama was determined to win a longer lease on the job. He did not hesitate to promise the moon, or to strum the samisen strings of renascent Japanese nationalism...