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Next day Solomon met separately with German and Japanese officials who had been invited to the U.S. in great secrecy, because the approval of their governments was needed for the foreign-currency borrowings. (Japanese Vice Minister of Finance Takehiro Sagami blandly told anyone who asked that he was going to Washington for a medical checkup.) Though the White House denied...
...first character of this verse by the 11th century Lady Sagami, "Tagasode: whose Sleeves . . .," has been adopted as the title of the spring exhibition that opens this week at New York's Japan House Gallery. It consists of 43 elaborate Edo-period kimono, chosen from 11,000 examples from Japan's foremost private collection. Almost all the techniques of kimono making - especially the two major ones, tie-dyeing and resist-dyeing - are on view in examples of the highest quality (see color...
...with a trowel in hand in case he spots a choice sample of fungus. But the Emperor's real passion is the crab. On his days off, wearing a leather jacket, work pants and high boots, he boards a coast guard cutter and voyages along the shores of Sagami Bay, where women divers search the bottom for him. He reserves each Monday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon for his laboratory, where his collection of 400 species includes 50 never previously recorded...
...Biologists, interested in the tiny marine organisms called ascidians, heard good news from Tokyo: this summer Emperor Hirohito will publish his second book on marine life, Ascidians of Sagami Bay, the result of four years' research and 20 years of specimen collecting in which he discov ered 21 new species. His first book. Opisthobranchia of Sagami, published four years ago, was a bestseller among marine biologists...
From the Iowa, anchored in Sagami Bay, TIME Correspondent John Walker radioed: "Off our port beam we saw the vast bulk of the holy mountain, Fuji, almost concealed in a wreath of clouds which could have been a mourning robe of traditional Japanese white - the color of death." The advance guard of airborne invaders landed at Atsugi; their transports disgorged aviation engineers, jeeps, gasoline, rations, radios, to prepare for the grand entry of the 11th Airborne Division and of MacArthur himself. Between Atsugi and the fleet was the Emperor's seaside palace at Hayama, destined to be MacArthur...