Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since U.S. B-29 bombers leveled Emperor Hirohito's palatial quarters within Tokyo's moat-encircled imperial compound in May 1945, the imperial family has made do with modest quarters, first the palace air-raid shelter and, since 1961, a 15-room house in the palace compound...
Yoshimura set out with "passion, sincerity and artistic fervor" to achieve "the finest possible space effect through the simplest possible composition." While using modern materials like steel and concrete, he hoped to build "a new palace for Japan so elevated in grace and dignity that it will be worthy of...
"Imperial ist Sabotage." Many nations seesawed while Russia and China pondered whether or not to recognize the new regime. Moscow was embarrassed because Ben Bella had been decked out with a Lenin Peace Prize. It hardly seemed decorous to embrace the new man too hastily, so Russia did nothing. China...
Of all members of its onetime Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, no nation hates Japan more bitterly than Korea-and the antipathy is mutual. Koreans, still smarting from 35 years of harsh colonial rule by imperial Japan, regard their former masters as a cruel, crafty race bent on reasserting...
The illustrious line of British colonial fiction may have arrived at parade's end with this trilogy of short novels about the last days of British rule in Malaya; Britain has no place to send another Kipling, Maugham, Forster, Greene or Waugh. Author Burgess' witness to the waning...