Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finalists included, for the first time, teams from Africa and Japan. The finals also included eight women, a record number...
Consumers responded. Identigene's business has doubled in each of the past five years. This year the company expects to field 67,000 telephone inquiries and conduct 10,000 DNA tests, compared with 650 tests in 1995. It now has offices in Japan, Korea, Brazil and the Czech Republic...
...Lindbergh Crosses Atlantic b) War with Japan c) Eisenhower Reluctant to Be Nominated d) President JFK Assassinated e) Man Walks on the Moon f) Stocks Plunge 508 Points g) U.S. Planes Attack Iraq h) Iraqi Missiles Hit Israel...
Last week this urban Robinson Crusoe, an unemployed comic nicknamed Nasubi (the Japanese word for eggplant), emerged from his Truman Show-like hermitage with the subtlety typical of TV in Japan: he was led into another room, the walls collapsed away and a crowd roared with delight. "You mean, everyone has been watching my naked body all this time?" he asked. In fact, his genitals had been covered by an electronic eggplant...
...wonders if his face will later be covered in egg. Part of the idea's charm was that Nasubi, 23, didn't know that all Japan was sharing in his desperate antics. But was it real? (Whatever "real" means on TV.) How much did Nasubi, clearly aware of the camera, help contrive his weekly 15 minutes of glory? Was he truly confined all that time? Or is he the Charles Van Doren of Japanese...