Word: masako
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dances gently around a pool of water on the floor, and delicate sounds of synthesizer music fill the air. On the gray tile wall, ten video screens display soothing images of running streams and ocean waves. Shoppers at the INAX Corp. showroom are delighted: "Suteki ((lovely))," murmurs Tokyo housewife Masako Yakou, happily browsing past rows and rows of shiny new . . . well, er, facilities. Gushes Yakou: "I love toilets...
...Some of my American friends, including Ken Galbraith, suggested that I should run, but Masako, my wife, took a rather ambivalent position: that is, she would support my candidacy if she were not Mrs. Tsuru, implying that a need for divorce action in case of my running." Tsuru wrote in his report...
...Somehow, this story leaked, and Masako was subjected to a barrage of entreaties from political organizers, including a full two-hour telephone offensive in one stretch. I declined to run in any case," he added...