Word: ichi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poles of power in occupied Japan are the Dai Ichi Building, in downtown Tokyo, and the U.S. Embassy, five minutes' drive away. General Douglas MacArthur works in the first, lives in the second...
...grey-carpeted, leather-chaired office on the sixth floor of Tokyo's Dai Ichi (No. 1) Building, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur puffed at one of his 17 pipes (including five corncobs) and ran a careful eye over the words he had penciled on two sheets of blue-lined paper. Satisfied, he touched the buzzer, handed the sheets to an officer and said: "Have this released to the press...
...marine in dress blues ushered five sober-looking Japanese into the crowded auditorium of Tokyo's Dai Ichi Building. Their dark, wrinkled civilian suits looked out of place among the sparkling Navy whites, the trim Army sun tans and Marine blues of the U.S. officers, and the summer furs of their ladies. As former staff officers of the Imperial Navy, the Japanese were official witnesses at the disposition of the remains of its fleet-92 vessels of destroyer size and under, which were to be divided among four victor nations. (Heavier ships and submarines have already been scrapped...
...Jiko-san" (Divine Light), she got financial support from Japanese aristocrats and militarists, averaged $16,000 a month in contributions. Over her temple in Kanazawa, Jiko-san flew the red "meatball" flag of Imperial Japan; to her followers she restated the basic State Shinto principles of hakko ichi-u-the whole world under Japan's Emperor. Jiko-san had included General Douglas MacArthur and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in her cabinet of lesser deities...
...Japan, too, the American-language craze had caught everybody from streetcar conductors, who crammed between corners, to the hat-check boy at the swank Dai Ichi Hotel, who couldn't keep his hats straight for studying an English grammar. In Tokyo a standard Oxford Dictionary would get you $33 last week, and two made-in-Japan, slang dictionaries that out-defined the Danish version had topped 40,000 copies apiece...