Word: fushimi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fushimi Senior High, Keishi Kanno, editor of the school paper, led a discussion of the new sex equality. "The girls," he charged, "are more otemba [tomboyish] and masculine than we expected." Both boys & girls were openly critical of Japan's traditional family system which gives the family head almost complete power over all members. "The system should be changed," argued Kanno, "for now a father can even tell his children whom to marry...
...Fushimi's plump principal, Hisahiko Okutani, observed: "If it had not been for the war you would have had to accept the traditional way." Little Chieko Tsuchida took up the argument. "My grandfather," she said,-"wants to pick a husband for me. I am opposed to an arranged marriage. My character won't permit it. I'm simply not the quiet or the obedient sort." Said Kanno: "She's an example of the otemba type...
...themselves. They had plenty to talk about. Across the Pacific the clouds massed darkly. Japan, junior member of the Axis, was talking of war if the U. S. didn't like her idea of running the Orient (see p. 40). What goat-faced Fleet Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi had up his Oriental sleeve, neither Frank Knox nor Jo Richardson knew. But Frank Knox had talked tough too, had said that "if a fight is forced upon us we shall be ready." At week's end he called up the naval reserve...