Word: daimaru
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...Misawa family had lived in Nagano, which means long field, for a thousand years, most of the time as rice growers. After the war, in which he lost both brothers, Daimaru Misawa bought land inexpensively on the dry slope. He cleared mountain pine and, with other villagers, put in a cooperative irrigation system. In the '50s he built a home, then a larger one ten years ago. His 4.4-acre farm is about twice the average acreage here, and his grapes, apples, peaches and melons have done well. The eldest son, Isamu, had just installed a new, promising method...
...Daimaru, at 72, had time to build a traditional garden with a small fishpond, and he could watch television documentaries and foreign movies late into the night. I asked about the strange bird cries of last evening. "I know them," he said. "They come only with darkness. It's the bird nobody knows...
...pickles, garden strawberries and grape juice from the vineyards. We sat on the earth in the orchard under an old peach tree. I pulled a dandelion and told how Americans eat the spring leaves. There was much giggling, so much that the women covered their mouths. "We eat everything," Daimaru said. "But this, is this not a weed?" When I pulled a plantain leaf and said it also was a good spring green, they were beside themselves with laughter. After things calmed, Daimaru said, "Next April I will try them...
...those mobbed, despite his civil service uniform, was the Thai government's own Secretary-General Choosak Watanaronchai, who saved himself by shouting "I'm a Thai!" Other bands of students broke four windows in the city's most prominent Japanese department store (the Thai Daimaru) and threw a small plastique bomb at the Japanese Trade Center...
...represented a steady 10% annual growth that has varied little since 1950. Japanese businessmen have worn their own commercial path throughout Southeast Asia. Hong Kong at sundown becomes a Japanese city, its harbor dappled with the neon reflections of pink, blue, red and green signs that announce Sony and Daimaru, Minolta and Canon. In Djakarta, the grey-white slabs of Japanese-financed hotels and office buildings thrust with ultramodern exuberance from the scabbed red roofs of Dutch colonial slums. Since the signing of the Korean-Japanese Normalization Treaty in 1965, the Japanese presence in South Korea has redoubled: Japanese tourists...
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