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Japanese journalist Yukio Matsuyama criticized Japanese democracy as "feudalistic" in a dinner speech last night at the Faculty Club. But Matsuyama also said that American democracy's emphasis on confrontation has destroyed part of the U.S. government's strength as well...

Author: By Michelle K. Hoffman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Japanese Journalist Speaks | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

...Matsuyama, former editorial board chair of the influential Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, gave a speech entitled "Democracy in Japan, Democracy in America" as the honored guest at the annual Harvard Program on U.S.-Japan Relations' Distinguished Visitor's Dinner...

Author: By Michelle K. Hoffman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Japanese Journalist Speaks | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

...Hobo is a Japanese comedy in the Italian manner. The fine Japanese hand of Director Zenzo Matsuyama has blended the smiles-and-tears vagabondage of La Strada with the bumbling malfeasance of Big Deal on Madonna Street into a Campari and sake cocktail that may be bitter at first sip but is warm on the aftertaste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Most Humanly Hobo | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Recession. In Matsuyama, Japan, "Rice Merchant" Tadashi Ebino was finally tracked down by police after he had 1) collected 2,000 yen ($5) in advance from a customer, 2) borrowed the customer's bicycle to deliver the rice, 3) borrowed the customer's watch to make certain he got to the rice pickup point on time, 4) failed to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Green Felt World. When tidings of the female wonder reached six-time Three-Cushion Champion Welker Cochran in the U.S., he skeptically queried his old opponent, Matsuyama. The reply was enough for Cochran: "Sometimes I beat her; sometimes she beats me." Cochran, director of the championship tournament, had to see this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lady with a Cue | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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