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PEOPLE, Page 103Sky GazerBy J.D. Reed/Reported by Wendy Cole
In public, Japan's energetic new Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu
favors polka-dot ties and baseball games. But in private, according
to a letter written to a minor functionary in 1983, he has more
celestial concerns. He acknowledged in the letter that he was a UFO
buff, one who had looked for unidentified flying objects on trips
to Australia, the South Pole and Switzerland. Alas, he spotted no
flying saucers, but, he wrote, "I'll live on with hopes of . . .
encountering a UFO some day." The Prime Minister has a leg up on
that wish. His cousin Norio Kaifu is an astronomer.