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...assume that everything that looks Western in Japan must be superficial. The "real Japan," it is often thought, must be hidden away somewhere, out of the sight of ignorant outsiders, and utterly unlike anything else in the world. This convergence of views had political consequences after Japan's defeat in 1945. American and Japanese liberals wanted Japan to have a liberal constitution as the basis of a real democracy. Conservative Japanese officials argued that such an arrangement would not be in tune with the real Japanese spirit. And they were backed in this belief by the most reactionary members...
...bitter feelings aren't too far below the surface. Right after she got married at the age of 21, the Japanese came and press-ganged her husband into the military. She was separated from him for over a year and didn't see him again until after Japan's defeat in 1945. "I try not to harbor bitter feelings toward Japan because it is all past history," she says. "But it is true my feelings toward Japan are not pleasant...
...defeat made this year’s Crimson team the first in school history to lose six Ivy games...
...Minh and his cohorts were communists, to be sure, but it was their nationalist credentials that earned them popular support. They had led their nation's resistance to Japanese occupation and French colonialism, and their defeat of the French at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 prompted France to sign a withdrawal agreement at Geneva. The Geneva agreement temporarily divided the country into northern and southern zones for purposes of demobilization, pending nationwide elections for an independent government. But with the Cold War in full swing, the U.S. was furious at the French for setting up a Southeast...
...only defeat of the day came at No. 1 doubles, where sophomore Sanja Bajin and co-captain Sanaz Ghazal fell 8-9 (4) to Dartmouth's Sarita Yardi and Carly Bashleban...