Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decades ago, the Japanese marched out to impose with guns their "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" on the helpless nations of Southeast Asia. Last week, while most of the world's eyes were trained on Europe's faltering Common Market, the Japanese were again swarming over Asia, and in Tokyo Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira was again talking of co-prosperity. Today's invaders are briefcase brigades of Japanese businessmen with funds to invest in local industries and squads of technicians offering help for every venture from building dams to making watches. In 1963 the Japanese really...
...Rickshas. The amount of Japan's aid to and its investment in its underdeveloped neighbors is still comparatively small, but is increasing sufficiently so that some neighbors are already accusing Japan of "economic imperialism." Some $579 million in government money is going for long-term credits to enable Asian nations to buy Japanese merchandise, and about $50 million in government money and $20 million in private funds has gone into technical aid and the training of local workers. But the most significant flow of funds is coming from Japanese businessmen: Japanese firms have invested $88 million in Southeast Asia...
Forgotten Hatred. Addressing a Tokyo meeting of the seven-nation Asian Productivity Organization last week. Foreign Minister Ohira put this drive in idealistic terms: "Asian prosperity is indispensable for the establishment of world peace.'' But wily Toshiba Electric Chairman Taizo Ishizaka. 76. puts his finger on a more immediate reason why Japan should help its neighbors. "Regional economic systems are the wave of the future,'' he says. "It is natural, therefore, that Japan should be interested in strengthening economic ties with her Asian neighbors." Hopelessly isolated from joining any of the world's common markets...
...last issue, the back of the Review contains the "Harvard Reports" section: a series of page-long surveys of work being done in such research centers as Biological Studies, East Asian Studies, Science and Government, and Cognitive Studies. These are distinctly valuable. Except for occasional Madison-Avenue splashes in the Alumni Bulletin, non-specialists have almost no way of learning what is transpiring in these centers...
...Etienne Gilson, who now commutes between Paris and Toronto. Generally recognized as tops of its kind in North America, the institute has produced at least 100 graduates now adding scholarly luster to U.S. Catholic philosophy departments. In addition, the university itself has set up new institutes-Slavic, Islamic, East Asian-sharply broadening St. Mike's vistas...