Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also named as fellows were Ragip Duran from Turkey; Aytul Gurtas, also from Turkey; Andreas Harsono from Indonesia; Tatsuya Inose from Japan; Rakesh Kalshian from India; and Lee Kwangchool from South Korea
...turn, the Germans began to listen. The watershed moment came when the Yanks (with a little inside help) persuaded Schrempp in March to drop a long-standing bid to buy Japan's Nissan Motors. Schrempp wanted Nissan badly, to consolidate his empire, and he had been negotiating with an absolutely desperate Yoshikazu Hanawa, Nissan's chairman. But the Americans, who would have been saddled with turning Nissan around, had been uncomfortable with the plan from the start...
Every time I return to California, for example, from my sometime home in Japan, I find that every current movie not based on Thomas Hardy seems to be derived from Henry James. The only reason not to catch Victor Hugo onscreen is that we caught him on Broadway a few years ago. This week sees Ally McBeal venturing into an "Athenian" forest in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Indeed, the hottest writer of treatments in Hollywood (as he was three years ago) is that high-concept old guy Shakespeare. Keanu Reeves in Shamela? Bette Midler and Stephen Dorff...
Martin was immediately caught up in Menudo's vida loca. He visited Italy, Japan, Guam and Spain before he was old enough to shave. During one stretch, he and his young bandmates played for a month in Brazil (singing in Portuguese), then flew to the Philippines (singing in English) before returning to Latin America for a series of shows in Spanish. Life became a blur...
...walls. It is the Manhattanite's view from New York City: Eighth and Ninth avenues wide in the foreground, a strip of Hudson River, a smaller strip of New Jersey, the rest of the U.S. missing, and in the far background some mere dots marking Los Angeles, Australia and Japan...