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Following the teacher on TV, two young women exercise at home in Tokyo, Japan on Nov. 5, 1963. The 15-minute program is one of several on Japanese TV directed especially to housewives who want to exercise for beauty. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Demonstrators stone Japanese policemen at the height of the pro-Red May Day riots in downtown Tokyo on May 1, 1952. Casualties were numerous on both sides as police used tear gas, guns and clubs to beat back the waves of rioters. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Tokyo metropolitan police take in a rioter at Shinjuku station, July 1, 1952 during the disturbances there by Reds who were marking the second anniversary of the start of the Korean War. The rioters used acid bombs and hurled rocks at the police. More than 100 policemen were injured in the clashes. About 30 of the rioters were arrested on the spot. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Three chorus girls at the Nichigeki music hall dress for a performance in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 15, 1953. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Following the teacher on TV, two young women exercise at home in Tokyo, Japan on Nov. 5, 1963. The 15-minute program is one of several on Japanese TV directed especially to housewives who want to exercise for beauty. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

The combination of two comparative novelties to Japanese audience, TV and American wrestling, bring out a tremendous crowd of fans watching the bouts on an outdoor screen in Tokyo, Japan on Feb. 21, 1954. NTV televised the bouts between visiting American wrestlers and Japanese opponents. The crowd that completely filed and jammed the street cheered, booed and applauded as if they were right at the ringside. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

In the center of Hiroshima stands the skeleton dome (foreground) of the only building preserved from the holocaust on July 7, 1970, which followed the dropping of the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. Behind it extend Peace Memorial Park, containing monuments and museum, and the surrounding modern city which has been built cover the ruins of the old one. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Mitsugi Kishida stands in Hiroshima on July 7, 1970 at the same spot from which he photographed a scene of devastation in 1945, after the explosion of the atomic bomb. The Sumitomo Bank, with its high, arched front entrance, has been rebuilt where it stood before the explosion. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Now 25 years later, the city is rebuilt and seems no different from any other Japanese City. But, memories and reminders of the blast still linger in Hiroshima, Japan on August 4, 1970. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Staring with wide-eyed fascination, a Japanese tot appears even tinier alongside the huge fish tank as he gazes at the wonders inside the tank set up outdoors at a busy downtown intersection in Tokyo, Feb. 7, 1976. The display of colorful tropical and many other varieties of fish in an annual exhibit to usher in the summer season. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Japan’s movie makers are now filming the last day of Japan’s 72,809-ton battleship Yamato, the biggest fighting ship ever built. The Shin-Toho Motion Picture Company is re-sinking the super-dreadnaught, in a documentary called “Battleship Yamato.” Here, studio men load shells in the guns of a model of the Yamato as they get it ready for the big scene on June 8, 1953. (AP Photo/Yuichi Ishizaki)

This girl weights each spindle of cotton before it is packed at the Nisshin Cotton Mill at Hamamatsu, Japan on Feb. 12, 1953. (AP Photo/Yuichi Ishizaki)

Students at the school in Osaka learn a fan dance as part of their training as geishas, Nov. 7, 1952. They use typical Japanese painted fans. Japanese geishas have three years of special schooling and two years of apprenticeship before they are on their own. After a period of lowered prestige following World War II, geishas are staging a comeback in Japan. (AP Photo/Yuichi Ishizaki)

The island’s local dressing for young women, whom have not married. They call the young women “Anko”. The tubs they carry are used to draw drinking water in Mt. Mihara, Japan on Sept. 16, 1950. There are only few wells on the island and water is most valuable thing, because the island is volcanic rocks. (AP Photo/Yuichi Ishizaki)

At their desks in classroom, children eat their lunch, furnished through UNICEP - United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund - in Japan on Jan. 5, 1952. (AP Photo/Yuichi Jackson Ishizaki)

Most of the present 1,000 workers at the Nisshin Cotton Mill at Hamamatsu, Japan, are young girls around 20 years of age. The mill takes pride in the clean dormitories that house 90 percent of the workers who do not care to commute to their homes. These girls read and sew in their quarters on Feb. 12, 1953, as they sit around the “hibachi,” a sand-filled urn in which charcoal is placed to heat the room. (AP Photo/Yuichi Ishizaki)

A 1949 Chevrolet will be raffled off at an international bazaar to be held September 24, in a drive to collect $500,000 and 30,000,000 Yen for erecting new buildings for the Sacred Heart College at the site of ex-Prince Higashi Kuni’s (the prime minister just after the surrender) palace in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 1949. Tickets are 360 yen or $1 each, and the winner will be able to drive the car home immediately after the drawing. (AP Photo/Yuichi Ishizaki)

“Anko” looking toward the only desert in Japan from the first crest in Japan on Sept. 16, 1950. (AP Photo/Yuichi Ishizaki)

“Anko” sings a Island’s folk-song to the sight-seeing visitors in Japan on Sept. 16, 1950. (AP Photo/Yuichi Ishizaki)

Four warships from the Japanese Navy hauled up anchor Jan. 14, 1958, and steamed for Pearl Harbor - the first naval visit since the 1941 air attack. Send-off ceremony was held alongside the flagship destroyer Harukaze before departure in Tokyo. High ranking officials of the Defense Board Agency and families of crewmen and academy graduates attended the ceremony. Kaya (288) and Kusu (281) leaves the pier for Honolulu. (AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita)

Four warships from the Japanese Navy hauled up anchor Jan. 14, 1958, and steamed for Pearl Harbor - the first naval visit since the 1941 air attack. Send-off ceremony was held alongside the flagship destroyer Harukaze before departure in Tokyo. High ranking officials of the Defense Board Agency and families of crewmen and academy graduates attended the ceremony. Kaya (288) and Kusu (281) leaves the pier for Honolulu. (AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita)

A group of disabled Japanese children exercise while leaning on braces and crutches in the yard of the Seishi-Royogo-En children’s rehabilitation hospital near Tokyo, April 11, 1958. Surgical, traction and exercise equipment contributed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have helped at the hospital. The World Health Organization provided technical guidance for establishment of the center, which can care for up to 200 patients. (AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita)

Special harness-like exercise devices are employed by nurse to help strengthen bodies of two polio patients at the Seishi-Royogo-En rehabilitation hospital near Tokyo, Japan, April 11, 1958. Seven-year-old Nobuyuji Kimura, left, is improving his neck muscles and 9-year-old Yoshio Shimuz is learning how to stand. With the help of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization, the Japanese government is setting up 47 such hospitals to care for thousands of crippled children in the country. (AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita)

The ears of the Shinto God of Marriage and of worshipers at the Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo were assailed on Tuesday, May 13, 1958, by the furious caterwauling of Japan’s rockabilly king Keijiro Yamashita. “Kei-Chan” abandoned his usual horde if screaming teenage fans and his extravagant pseudo-Western garb to give a happi-coated, but gyrating, musical offering to the god at the shrine’s annual festival. The shrine staged the noisy break from tradition in an effort to recover its lost glories of the past when its festival was one of the big events of the Tokyo calendar. (AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita)

Japanese girls of the Schochiku dancing troupe rehearse one of their new numbers in the “natsu-no-odori” summer dance scene which they will perform at the Kokusai Theater in Tokyo on July 11, 1958. They are doing one of the specialties, a line dance. (AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita)

A young Japanese woman in a kimono takes part in the Hula-Hoop craze that has swept America and Japan in this Oct. 30, 1958 picture. (AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita)

Japan’s highest manmade structure, and one of the world’s tallest 1,088 feet into the sky was dedicated. The public named it “Tokyo Tower” it cost three million dollars and looms over Tokyo’s skyline like a giant steel needle. Four thousand tons of steel girders and 30 tons of paint went into the tower. Each leg is supported by eight concrete pillars driven to a depth of 24 yards. A night view of the giant tower as it looms over the city on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1958. (AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita)

Japanese firemen, wearing the traditional Happi coat, parade in front of the reviewing stand in Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine Outer Gardens, during the annual firemen’s festivities, Jan. 16, 1959. The standard-bearers happily swing their decorated standards during the parade. (AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita)