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...steeped in deeper experience. From 1938 to 1943, Italian-born Anthropologist Fosco Maraini studied and taught in Japan. Two of his three daughters were born in Japan, and when Italy surrendered in World War II, he and his family, interned, nearly starved to death in a prison camp near Nagoya. Meeting is the elaborate, graceful story of Maraini's 1955 return and rediscovery of his "adopted homeland." A Buddhist scroll hanging in a friend's house provides Author Maraini with one of his key themes: "Free yourself from attachment to useless things." The Japanese mind is obsessed with...
...Town. In Nagoya, Japan, Fusao Ochiai missed the last streetcar, swiped a trolley and drove it to his home, soon got another free ride-to jail...
Howling in from the Pacific, Typhoon Vera last week smashed Japan with winds up to 135 m.p.h. The industrial city of Nagoya (pop. 1,300,000) was plunged into darkness, water rose in the streets, and the collapse of an apartment building pinned 84 in the wreckage. Eighteen miles south at Handa (pop. 68,000), gale winds and high seas crashed a 1,000-ton ship against the sea wall, and the raging ocean burst through, sweeping away 250 homes. In central Japan, rain-choked streams surged over their banks, and 85 bodies were taken from the raging Nagara River...
Last week, adding its 100th U.S. dealer, Toyota announced that U.S. sales will hit 350 this month. Toyota will start bringing in station wagons this month (price: $2,500), is building an $18 million plant near Nagoya to meet the demand...
When Dr. Tadakatsu Tazaki, fired with ambition to find new antibiotics, visited Nagoya University (230 miles west of Tokyo) in 1952, one of the first things he did was to spoon up a sample of soil from the medical-compound garden. Hopefully, he labeled it K-2J, sent it to his ex-chief, Microbiologist Hamao Umezawa, at Tokyo University. There it became one of the 1,200 soil samples tested every year to see whether they harbor microbes capable of producing substances to kill other microbes...