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Postwar model train magazine publishes 800th edition

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 16, 2014 shows Haruo Ishibashi, editor in chief of the monthly magazine "Tetsudo Mokei Shumi" (model railway hobby), at the office of its publisher Kigei Publishing Co. in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. Launched in 1947, the magazine issued its 800th edition in January 2014.

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GHQ religious expert recommended sparing Yasukuni Shrine

WASHINGTON, United States - An expert in Japanese religion at the General Headquarters (GHQ) that ruled Japan after World War II recommended sparing Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine in January 1947, according to documents (copies in photo) Kyodo News obtained on Aug. 13. William Woodard, then a leading authority on Japanese religion, said in a report that the shrine ''should be allowed to continue to exist,'' as its elimination ''would accomplish very little and would create additional problems.''

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Dead Reckoning film (1947)

Lizabeth Scott & Humphrey Bogart Poster Characters: 'Dusty' Chandler, Capt. 'Rip' Murdock Film: Dead Reckoning (1943) Director: John Cromwell 02 January 1947 Date: 02-Jan-1947

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Dead Reckoning film (1947)

Humphrey Bogart & Lizabeth Scott Poster Characters: Capt. 'Rip' Murdock, 'Dusty' Chandler Film: Dead Reckoning (1947) Director: John Cromwell 02 January 1947 Date: 02-Jan-1947

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Dead Reckoning film (1947)

Humphrey Bogart & Lizabeth Scott Poster Characters: Capt. 'Rip' Murdock, 'Dusty' Chandler Film: Dead Reckoning (1947) Director: John Cromwell 02 January 1947 Date: 02-Jan-1947

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Dead Reckoning film (1947)

Humphrey Bogart & Lizabeth Scott Poster Characters: Capt. 'Rip' Murdock, 'Dusty' Chandler Film: Dead Reckoning (1943) Director: John Cromwell 02 January 1947 Date: 02-Jan-1947

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Sinbad The Sailor film (1947)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Characters: Sinbad Film: Sinbad The Sailor; Sinbad, The Sailor (USA 1947) Director: Richard Wallace 13 January 1947 Date: 13-Jan-1947

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The Lucky Stiff film (1949)

Brian Donlevy & Robert Armstrong Characters: John J. Malone & Insp. Von Flanagan Film: The Lucky Stiff (1947) Director: Lewis R.Foster 22 January 1949 Date: 22-Jan-1949

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Contents of Nobel laureate Yukawa's letters to poet Yoshii disclosed

File photo taken in 1956 shows world-known physicist Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981), the first Japanese national who received a Nobel prize. Detailed contents of Yukawa's six letters sent to poet Isamu Yoshii (1886-1960) between March 1945 and January 1947, before receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949, were disclosed by Mitsuhiro Hosokawa, a professor at the University of Shizuoka, in an academic journal published in September 2015. The letters contain a total of nine "tanka" poems of Yukawa, including four unpublished poems. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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GHQ religious expert recommended sparing Yasukuni Shrine

WASHINGTON, United States - An expert in Japanese religion at the General Headquarters (GHQ) that ruled Japan after World War II recommended sparing Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine in January 1947, according to documents (copies in photo) Kyodo News obtained on Aug. 13. William Woodard, then a leading authority on Japanese religion, said in a report that the shrine ''should be allowed to continue to exist,'' as its elimination ''would accomplish very little and would create additional problems.'' (Kyodo)