Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russia continue to act up, voters might find it reassuring to have a connoisseur in the White House. And in the meantime, Gore won't be able to kick his foreign policy habit. Over the howls of his political team, he insisted on flying two years ago to Kyoto, Japan, to rescue a 155-nation global-warming treaty, something the Republican Senate is never likely to ratify. Last summer, when advisers would have preferred that his time be spent claiming credit for this country's economy, Gore was in Ukraine, urging President Leonid Kuchma to take the bitter economic medicine...
...want: 1. Build up their world credentials. 2. Taiwan. 3. Get U.S. out of Asia." A quarter-century later, China is still struggling with these goals, and the U.S. is the omnipresent bogeyman, criticizing China's political regime, providing military support to Taiwan and maintaining 80,000 troops in Japan and South Korea. Last week's demonstrators accepted as a given that the U.S. is dedicated to keeping China down. "It is because China is not powerful enough," said a 21-year-old student from Peking University who gave her name as Wan. "We must stand together to make China...
...cost, high-volume auto production. Purchasing arrangements had been revamped so that suppliers took on as much as 70% of the cost and manufacturing responsibility for new cars--a success that prompted the Harvard Business Review to describe Chrysler and its suppliers as an "American keiretsu," a reference to Japan's synergistic business groups...
There are other dreams Brandy's after. For one, she wants to tour in Japan. She wants to look out at a crowd that doesn't understand a word she's singing and yet somehow feels what she's feeling. She has already visited Japan on a tiny, promo-tour scale, but, she explains, "I haven't been to Japan like Whitney's been to Japan, like Tina [Turner]'s been to Japan, like Diana Ross has been to Japan." Impact is everything. It's at moments like these that one sees another side of Brandy, a shrewdly ambitious side...
With its benevolent characters and empowering ethic of "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger," Pokemon is unlikely to spur kids to purchase assault weapons. But it has inspired the kind of obsessive acquisitiveness not seen since--well, the Beanie Baby. When Pokemon was introduced in Japan in 1996, the characters immediately captivated the preteen set, particularly young boys. Pokemon creatures such as Pikachu (a yellow catlike mite) and Poliwhirl (a disk with bulging eyes) were soon presiding over a media juggernaut, including an animated TV show and trading cards, and appearing on everything from cell phones...