Word: hokkaido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tone about the incident was moderate: the attack had taken place over disputed waters between the Red-held Kuriles and Hokkaido; the U.S. considered itself the aggrieved party, but the incident was not entirely clear...
...returning from his first visit since the war to Japan's northernmost islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. Two hours and one minute after taking off, the Emperor stepped again on terra firma at Tokyo, looking much less nervous than he had before. Crowds of his smiling subjects greeted him with banzais, while news photographers, perched on ladders high above the Emperor's head, told him when to take off and put on his straw skimmer...
...raised again to semidivine status. In the years since the war, he has grown paunchier, more stooped, and greyer at the temples. His walk more than ever resembles that of a duck. But the huge crowds who gathered to greet him with paper flags, banzais and sometimes tears in Hokkaido were not the awed, head-lowering crowds before the war. They offered Hirohito something they had never offered his ancestors-plain affection...
...force was changed from "Safety" to "Self-Defense." To help with the changeover, the U.S. House of Representatives last week voted to hand over to Japan some $500 million worth of U.S. weapons already in the islands. Next month Japanese troops will replace the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division in Hokkaido, the major Japanese island nearest Russia...
...Andrew D. Bruce, 59, to succeed Walter W. Kemmerer (TIME, May 4, 1953) as president of the University of Houston (see MILESTONES). A graduate of Texas A. & M., Armored Forceman Bruce commanded the 77th Infantry Division in the Pacific during World War II, was the first occupation governor of Hokkaido, later became commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk...