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TOKYO — For two days ult ra-cautions prpfessors at (top Tokyo wo men, s imWersity agonised ovもr the dubious sex of an enね'さJice ex&minee. Although glamorcn^sly dゅec^ out inき 8h)onable' red paritalcH?ns and & gorgeous wig, the candidate ha-ujrly marmbh handsand, under the heavypPancake make^iip, the suapipUmofl)eard stubble.。
\^hentheauthorities fin all pluckeduj) enougl^ courゃぉe for a cohfrontation,u"der thewig ,s a Tniddle:aged high §choQl
EiVfifiish teacher taking the exims on behaぱof Ws17-year-o!d daughter.
ぉehind t^his bi站rre tele is a very 'realand .depressingぉct of lifeれr Japan《se ^ho.olcl^ndren 一the battle tひぉetmto the "^rig"ht"BCー1.It is a cut-throat fcusinesstivatc#n stさrt irom kindergarten at the柳ojTthree "ntii the student claws
一、way into a top> university and hasn't a clue why he,s there.
ITsi^aUyはis叫l"d "もxaniina-t ion,lie11"a ridはh效多pr<wlu<;^d a
forbidding brさed known as kyoi-ku mama (educ^aUon加c?ネh;er)y a ぉriatic who willgo aiiyjeii^gtl^s to ensuire her diildren on to the narro、vr6adt0 success. T hie fatherおdr&g、vas,siHj^ly ftlAre ma】e version of thephenomenoit.
In J a jpan successおmeasured in terms of where one graduates, not what one haslearned there (Which tends toliave no practical ゆplication). The jn'ゅlem 】d" in thefapjtれれ"fi?:st class" colleges and universitiesican be counts dm one hand. They are
the )iational (goVernm"it-sup, ported) establishments, whereas まmost 80 iierceiUofUjeti?rUary eiixicjitkm is pa'ふvidcd J^^^^ivaie colleges Which Ju'ereg^?3^d as iihfei,ior, 、yh(jther in fact they, arc or not;
Ori;he 77nat;ipn.almstihitions, thehest, Tbkyo UhWersity, gefs 10 per cent I of the goveuiment ぉd andiritm'"pi:ovides virtually the entire government and biはN
Thさcom petition to entei't奋is h"nd:fulof cHte schools is ob-
vicmslyfi(jircc,and unless a child iさa natural"I) orVI genius,I'e^ular classi:oomlessons willbeinsvif-fi(^ieht to copeヽy,t)it he severe entrance exa加ii)ations.
The child 、vれh apibUkmi、,u$t go to evening, Sa]turday and Sunday c:asses at prop schoolさ (prWate, schools) foi"?furthei' generalschooHng, ai、d then to private tutc^rs or specialschools kivo、vn as »Juky to j)oUsh up iu-dividiゅlさubjects.
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Japanese A鹏rbn Artist lss鹏s Controversial WWII Views
SAM FRANCISCO. — The Japan-born woman who was America's answer to Tokyo Rose during World War H saysJapane-se Americans "should cx^mplain, but not so much" abQut IhMre-なtment they received'、froえthe U.S. government. ,
MitsviYashima, w'ho、vas a young artistliving in New Yひi'k City when the vyar bi'oke out, recalled her "dismay" when the Japanese bombed PearlHarbor 34 years agひthisさunday.
"I felt s確econf)icぃabout the wai* at first, but I was glad I could stay in the United States Avit^h my husband," Mrさ.Yashi-ma, now in her 60s,ざ a id in an interview..
She SB id the FBI offered to repatriate her and her hu&band, but they deeltned, even though thei? son h&d remまed behind 、vith hisgr&n(i|mQther in ^lapan and thex、verepott0 see him
Japanese Public Clamors For More News Of "Wonder Cancer Vaccine'V Maruyama Vaccine
McCartney Can't Sing In Jdpcm
BR!S!iA?^?E, Australia. — A ban by the Japanese !Governniもnt onformerBeatle PaxilMcGart-nejr arid his pop.group >Virtgs has thrown the group's plans in 二 td diさarray, a Wing;多、pokesman saiCTもrecently.'
"すhe wJiolethingisdisゅp(?, inting not only from aperfor-ni"b(bpoiiiゃQf 、'iew but a!so from apefsonalone. PAulan4 Ws family wanted to see the CO up try," the spol^fsman fold newsmen.
The ban onMcCartney entはing Japan followed acoiwicUon in Britain in1973 on a chさr织of possessing can&bis.
Japan,s Immigration Control Law prohibits entry to anyone who has be^n convi<?t€<i on a drug
for10 years.
"I* knew I was doing the right thing," she shW."'I felt that Japan had to ,be defeated becauゃ thby didn,t tre"t the Japan j)e邻le right or the Chinese the Korean people:
'(That kind of powei.had to be destroyed/.
Hiredゎy the U.S. Off ice of Strategic Services, forerunner of the GIA, Mrs..Yashinva was sent heie in1944 to retard bT"oadcasts that then weresM;pped to Saipan and beamed to the Japanese mainland.
"My job 、vas to talk to the 、yomelv in Japan and urge them to runa、Vayfrom the 、yareff-. ひrt," she said. "YれI knewa-bbut Tokyp Rose and what she was saying to the American soldiers. Iliated hei"because I tho-ughlhow could any body help the Japanese A my?
"I talkedれouthow tenribk the food situation was,"shもsaid. "The Japanese women were prohibited from wearing makeup or 》r€|tt:ircl6th€s and 1,1ked about how there wasn't even time to comb one's hair.
<'I Urged thetn to;i'im a、vay from the cities because &f the dtmgeにof bombing, i told them j not to. saVe nioney,- b^uSe money ヽvouldbふ】ikもa 、vaきt印ゅer thing."
Mr§>^ Yashima, who now teaches art ii> the J^paiiese Ameri^ian bomiiiunity here, sヰi(i she feels criticism the UiiHed iS^4;es fo;r puUii)g Japanese Amきdc^ns in c&mps dui:ing the wat ai.e exa,-
."I ft iley knew, then U1eyc0uid c6mpare it with what the JapSan垂 ese a17ny did toゅe Chinese i)e-<^ple a?id allthos^ conquered places," shesa,d.
I , "The JapaneseAmericans do not have So much to complain about. Well,wゃshould <;oinplain, I know, but not so muchノ,
Sh兮幼id she feels, the United States also was justified in using the atom bomb to hasten the J&pane狄defeat, "but it should r.ever be used again. Never!"
By TAKAOTOKUOKA
TOKYO. 一 DivChisato Maiu-yanm has already answered more than 7000lぞ"ers fi'ornaU over the world but his mailbox is still bulging with an aveiage of 20 incomingletters a day. The reason 一a wonder cure for cancer.
Thelette,rs requje&t that the ]Maruy"m'a Vacdne be dispatched immediately.
After19 years oflabodous re.sea'rch and tests the: Maruyama
Vaccine has come into thelhne-ligh.t in Japan.
DiゝMauyama, professor emeritus of' Nippon:..Medical.School, and his research team were given the best hours , diiring the recent 13th Congi'ess or Japan Society foi'Cancer Ther"apy held in Tokyo to report the "dramatic effects" of the wonder々acci-;He in cm'iivg cancer — in ma.fiy eases the patients hadpi'evious!y been 、desigrlatedさs "hopeless."
The各-xcellnit effect of the va-
BcinzaLHolclout Finally Gets Cctught
TOKYO. , Japan World War II straggler Hiroo Onoda, who e-miね'ated to JBi'azil-last spring, annoVmeed.his engagement recently to Machie Onuld, a 38,yea1 old.' instructor of :the Japanese tea ceremony and flower arran-gement.
Onoda,や3, t6ld newsmen that his fiist "coincidentalmeeting" 、vはh Miss OmUd, of Tokyo, was :last s'unrimer at' a'i'esぉura,it where he dropped by for a business Iunchecm concerning the. pu'blication ofl^is memories "My Thirty Years in Lubang Island."
Jlpn;ET乡hJcUes CefitrejEstablished
• ANGELES. — Two years of plianmng precededも he armounc,in《nt iate in November of the establishment of the Cenl:-ter forjap?mese Studi, at Cか lばornia State Uれiversはy, Los みiige':せs. The projected (iepひsi-toryofhisto?::cai, political,eci)-nomic aind technipalid9iaひn J^a-pゅ"wHlbe the s"ond such
AsianAmぉicqn Experience Book
LOS ANGE^LES. — ThゅCLA Asiai> Apieri^n Studies Center has細t published "Contーs and Conflicts: th(5 Asian American Experience"(i6pp,多2J^), designed for secondarys^hck>l-leve!
intrioductゃびAsian AmgricIaTi cours".
Carolyn Yee( 825-2968)幼id the book is a "counter-sねltement to the myriad schooltexts which either neglect or distort Uie history of Asians in America',- A teacher*s manualwillfollow,
Write orさ allthe Outer ;for other publications.
faciHty of" ite kind in California, the other beihg at ihe University of California at Bei:keky,
Tlie力enter wm make itsi;eio~ リrces avaUable to student" tea-chpJS, the business conimiinity and -the g仲erai pul^ic. Among plam^ed activities willbe conf-ereiic€S, the collec"oh of sclioレ pr!ym"ei、iails, research and publication, and th re X change of data \vUhカther centers..:
Itsrぉources a》e expected to bふused b^f those who wish to broaden theミr knowledge andim-ders,tand!ng of philosophicaland h:"toricalaspects of Japan, as "thelanguaぉe ,nd jitera, tdre of the counfiy.
,dalばorma State at Los""Angゃ-l€S is one of thiree state universities wh;.eh offer a Bj\. degree in Japanese-Faculiy members who、 sもrve4 on the Centれ,s orgaYiizing committee were Dr. Tiamitsu Kato, professor of Japanese; Dr. Midori Nっshi, geography; Lin" M. TakeshiU, art; Dr. ri. Jay Ha-iris, Japanese; and Dr. Mはsuru Kuboto, counseling.
(icine had already been reveale(i i)y Dr. M a my a ma to the11th InternationalCancer Congi'ess heId in Florence in Octoberlast year.' The contents of the repent 、vere also printed in detailby ■the Guar"n of 'Manches'ter :and 。ther foreign journals.
Out of 247, patients whoI'e-ceived injections of the Mきruya-ma Vaccine between1958 and 1.973, "vei'yeffぉtive" T*esults were seen in 386 cases and "effective" results ill758, according to the report made recently.
Mostojt the patients had un-d erg one eU her surgery, radiation therapy 01'chemotherapy > with hardly any effect. They were described iis having "terminal ■stage", cancer.
The Maruyama- Vaccine is .also outstanding for not causing unfavorable side-effebts.
The 、vhite-hah'ed Dr. Mai勿a-ma, former president of ^Hpport Medic&lSchool, wasinitially inspired in1946 by the. curidus f aぐt that few pa"ents in tulm'-cuiosis sanatoriaなndleprosaria suffered froni cancer.
He seぃout to exU'act "ccine from a certain human type tubercle ba(iilU (TB andleper bacilli are common in many of the essentialch aractieristics) and sorted acJministering- it via inje-cUon to,'paUenぉincianc^ wards. Tぉe vac<5in$ was subsequently refined by196()to,such Jan ex-tent.that the updes】'伤ble side-effe;" were all butもradicated.
Dr. Keishoぉuぉta, « ihもmbei' of the Maruyarimr^"areh staff aridTlectinker (gynぉolog^) of Nippon MedicalSchゅl,expla,ns thちunique ^acdneビun^tions to fortify patients' fundamental resistance, to tumors, thereby enゆling them to resist and oyercome the i?ialignant pi:olレ feratミ(yn of calmer celぉ.
An abundance of "miraculously cmed cases" has been r《ix)rted by. Dr. Maruyama and his staff, including cases in Which cimcもr had metatasized (spread) from originalsites of disease — usually a fatalsymptom.
Many who underwent Maruy'a-
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