Word: japanism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...little guy do a little dance on the screen. At the time my thoughts were as follows: 1) Technologically speaking, this is a pretty amazing hack; 2) too bad the graphics suck; and 3) nobody will buy this ever. And 4) at least I got a free trip to Japan. And this was even before they told me the name...
...precaution, many have already formed military pacts and strengthened their security apparatuses. India countered China’s growing sequence of bases in Central Asia and the Pacific Rim by accelerating its own production of a blue-water navy and enhancing security ties with the U.S., France, Russia, and Japan. A mutual fear of China also prompted former adversaries South Korea and Japan to start a symbiotic relationship on defense issues...
...York Swine Flu Shutters Schools As the number of people affected by the H1N1 virus surpassed 10,000 worldwide, schools in the U.S., Mexico and other countries continued to close--despite a CDC statement calling the move ineffective in containing the illness. Japan has shut more than 4,000 schools; in states like Texas and New York--which reported its first flu death May 17--some students have been home for two weeks...
...Jong Un to circulate outside the North, a snapshot the chef took when the boy was about 11. He is the son of Kim Jong Il's third wife - reportedly his favorite - Ko Young Hee, a former dancer who died in 2004 from breast cancer. Ko was born in Japan but moved back to North Korea with her father in the 1960s...
...part because, more so than the two other male Kim offspring, he has a take-charge personality. Kim regards Jong Chul, Jong Un's older brother, as being "girlish." And their older half brother, Kim Jong Nam, appears to be a flake, having been detained and deported in Japan in 2001 after traveling on a phony passport and claiming he wanted to visit Disneyland. Jong Un, Fujimoto writes, is different. He and his brother Jong Chul enjoyed playing basketball - but after the games, Jong Chul would just say goodbye to their friends and leave. Jong Un would then gather...