Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admiral Roscoe F. Good, in charge of Navy forces in Japan, had another view of discipline. After reading the report on conditions at the Sasebo brig, he ordered general courts-martial for Barbuti and a second brig warden, special courts-martial for the other 14 guards...
There were three things about 18-year-old Seaman Wesley Daggett that interested the doctors at the U.S. Navy Base Hospital at Sasebo, Japan. First, he was covered with ugly bruises on his abdomen, chest and buttocks. Secondly, he had just been discharged from the Sasebo base brig, and third, he refused to tell what had happened to him. Since the same symptoms had turned up on another case the previous week, the doctors kept after Daggett until he began to talk. What they heard sent the Navy and Marine Corps charging to the brig to investigate...
...principal candidates, Laurel alone shows a coolness toward the U.S. ("The Americans favor countries like India and Japan over us because they know we won't go Red"). But like the others, he wants more U.S. money to stabilize the nation's economy. Under Philippine law, separate votes are cast for President and Vice President. Many who concede Garcia will probably win the presidency think there is a good chance Laurel will be defeated by the Liberals' Diosdado Macapagal, 47. A poor boy become lawyer and economist, Macapagal claims longtime friendship with Magsaysay despite later political differences...
They further taught us that the United States was unable to bring Japan to her knees and called upon Russia for help, whereupon the Red Army promptly brought about a surrender by crushing the Japanese Kuantung Army of a million men in Mongolia. The first American Atomic bombs which fell upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki were dismissed as insignificant while compared with the Soviet strength. The communists were as thorough as possible with this one-sided distortion of the facts, too thorough to be believable...
...Faculty Committe on Regional Studies has set up the Center to give "cohesion and stimulus" to graduate training and research programs concerned with the area. Plans call for more intensive study of Japan, Korea, and other potential trouble areas...