Word: araki
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a rip-roaring locomotive that dumfounded onlookers and customs men, the greying junketeers began their reunion with a rousing "Tiger, tiger, tiger, sis-boom-bah!" Then, starting out in Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies...
...Asia Story (Sun. noon, CBS). Speaker: Japan's Ambassador Eikichi Araki...
...stranger to the U.S., Araki served in both the '20s and '30s in New York as an official of the Bank of Japan. In 1945 he became a vice-governor of the bank, a fact which put him on MacArthur's purge list. He was depurged in 1950. Araki tried to turn down the Washington appointment on the ground that he was not a diplomat, but Premier Yoshida insisted that Araki's financial experience was required in the main business of the embassy: straightening out Japan's debt to the U.S. and arranging for loans...
...school Japanese, Araki is so polite that he finds it almost impossible to finish 18 holes of golf in a day because he keeps asking others to pass him. He wears a kimono at home and prefers to sleep on a straw mat on the floor. To cook for him and act as his official hostess (he is a widower), the new ambassador brought along his 20-year-old daughter Tomiko, a shy, pretty girl who speaks little English, prefers Western dress. Tomiko is due for some surprises: she prepared herself for her trip to the U.S. by plowing determinedly...
...convicted war criminal General Sadao Araki, who directed Japan's 1931 conquest of Manchuria, served in 1938-39 as Japan's Minister of Education...