Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan, which supports 91 million people in an area the size of Montana, a nine-year-old birth-control program has already cut the birth rate almost in half (to 1.2% annually). The free world's most extensive contraception campaign is expected to achieve similar results in less industrialized India. A major problem facing underdeveloped nations is what scientists call "functionless fertility"−the peasant's tendency to continue having large families even when he no longer has to insure himself against a high death rate. India's economic planners say their biggest problem is still...
...rise in that time, now hopes its "hard pound" policy, expressed in courageously raising the discount rate from 5% to 7%, will finally check inflation, permit Britain to build up the gold and dollar reserves it needs to act as banker for the sterling area. In Asia, Japan has creditably held its inflation since 1953 to 9%, and recently the Bank of Japan, the government's central bank, further tightened up on money by raising the discount rate from...
...William Augustus Richardson Jr., 37, round-the-world Canadian mining and prospecting share operator (TIME, Feb. 4), who lined up so many interesting possibilities that he is taking off on a firsthand inspection trip to Japan, New Caledonia, Australia, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand. He said he can raise $200 million if the mining ventures pan out. Among the possibilities: a $7,000,000 to $9,000,000 deal with Bulent Yazici, executive vice president of Turkey's Industrial Development Bank, to build Turkey's first chrome-plating mill...
...reinvested savings) is easiest to express as a percentage of gross national product. On this basis the U.S. saves 17%, the same as France, and slightly more than Britain's 15%. But West Germany saves 22%, Canada 24%, Peru 21%, Austria 24%, Iceland 31%, Norway 29%, Israel 22%, Japan and Italy 20%, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 34%. On the other hand, Chile saves only 8%, the Philippines 7%, Indonesia 5%, and many other underdeveloped countries even less. A rule of thumb is that any country with a rising population must save at least 10% of its current...
...land, an unmarried girl approaching 30 is apt to get an attack of the will-I's; Will I, oh will I ever find a husband? In Japan, this question throws the girl's entire family into a near panic. The Makioka Sisters is the story of a great mate hunt conducted with all the fussy protocol, near misses and ever-lurking dangers of a de luxe African safari...