Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Western observers see the new Japanese justification of the Pacific war as a logical outgrowth of the country's search for national identity. As the world's fifth-ranking industrial power and Asia's wealthiest nation, Japan feels a need to reassert itself in Asian affairs. Tokyo University Political Scientist Masao Maruyama suggests that the war in Viet Nam-which pits Asians against whites-tends to reinforce Japanese views that the Pacific war was justifiable as an "anti-colonial" and anti-white crusade...
...more than a decade, the most reliably raucous of Peking's Asian allies was North Korea's Kim Il Sung. No longer. Since early this year, Kim has been steering an increasingly independent course. To Moscow's delight and Peking's chagrin, Kim & ; Co. chose to keep silent in the current Indo-Pakistani crisis; even over the explosive issue of Viet Nam, North Korea has been less vitriolic than Peking wishes...
Everyone wanted something as the world's money managers gathered in Washington last week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund. African financial chiefs approached the IMF with requests for more support. Asian delegates asked the U.S. Government to underwrite the proposed Asian development bank. Among the 2,000 moneymen from 103 nations who crowded into the Sheraton Park Hotel, such bankers as the U.S.'s David Rockefeller and Robert Roosa, Britain's Viscount Harcourt and Italy's Ettore Lolli swapped shop talk and negotiated private deals...
...number of students planned on taking Soc Sci 111, "History of East Asian Civilization," after it was reported in April that the course might be counted as a lower level Social Sciences course, Brown said...
...organization, which has already set up a national office at Yale and calls itself Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy, will focus its efforts on three aspects of U.S. Asian policy. It will work towards a cease-fire in Vietnam, United States recognition of Communist China, and the admission of mainland China into...