Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enter, Blondie. The coming of democracy has had its greatest impact on Japanese women. Before the war they were virtually without legal rights. Now they vote, own property, attend square dances, go to coeducational schools and eagerly discuss the advantages of love matches over the ancient Japanese custom of marriage arranged by parents. They may smoke if they like. Emancipation has not been confined to the young. A middle aged matron in a Fukuoka leather-goods store explained: "Before the war when my husband and I went out I walked behind. Now we walk side by side...
Exit, a God. A sociologist who has spent a lifetime studying the conservative folk of Japan's fishing villages said last week: "Everywhere I go the conflict is the same. It is the young against the old. The old instinctively want to preserve past ways, but they are losing. Now, in the village assemblies the youngsters speak out against their fathers-often violently. The old, rigid family structure is cracking. Where the young will go, what faith they will finally adopt, I don't know...
...tragic economic plight, the general replies that he was rigidly bound by the directive, which expressed the will of the people of the U.S. Critics of SCAP, looking at Japan's slow recovery, insist the reply is only partially valid. MacArthur, they argue, had enough stature to go to bat in Washington against any directive he considered wrong...
Last February, Washington sent slight, straight-talking Banker Joseph Dodge, of Detroit, to help MacArthur get the program started. Last week Troubleshooter Dodge was packing to go home, his mission accomplished. In a busy three months he had persuaded Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government to balance its budget (for the first time since 1931) and set up a realistic yen rate (360 to $1 U.S.). In return for the national belt-tightening that this signified, the Japanese would receive U.S. aid (around $4,000,000 in 1949) along self-helping ECA lines...
...with unmilitary chores. One American businessman recently complained: "They clutter up any piece of business with the damndest bureaucracy you ever saw. But foreign businessmen here can at least get into SCAP and yell. The Japanese businessmen are even more helpless and paralyzed-and don't even dare go near SCAP...