Best Boy and Girl Chosen for Shanghai Beaming happily, a young boy and an equally young girl on Tuesday heard themselves "pronounced the healthiest children of Shanghai's Japanese community.
The crowns were earned by the children—Master Yasusuke Ohta and Miss Sumiyo Okamoto—after a series of elimination physical examinations for the healthiest pupils of the schools maintained by the Japanese Residents' Corporation.
On June 18, sixty-seven boys and girls were picked from among the thousands of Shanghai's Japanese youngsters. This number was whittied down to ten in the second examination, held on June 24.
On Tuesday, the Central Examination Committee for the selection of the healthiest children, met at the Japanese Club and cast its vote in favour of Ohta and Okamoto.
The judges in the contest, which has been sponsored annually for the past four years by the "Shanghai Mainichi," included Mr, Masusaburo Amano, head of the Japanese Re: dents Corporation; Dr. Shinzo Shin-ive, President of the Shanghai Science Institute; Dr. Kan Tongu, Chairman of the Shanghai Japanese Medical Association; principals of local Japanese schools; and other civic officials, Four other ' youngsters received honorable mentions. They were Master Koichiro Tani, Master Setsuo Sakane, Miss Keiko Yano, and Miss Chizuko Hayano.
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