Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many other newspapers abroad, the Japanese press played the news from Arkansas with ill-concealed relish. But Japan's most influential daily, Asahi Shimbun, pointedly reminded its readers that perhaps Japan is in no position to throw rocks at Little Rock...
Hisimatsu received his training at the Buddhist Kyoto University in Japan, and later was a professor there and in other Buddhist colleges. As a Zen master, he has numerous disciples, mostly among young Japanese professors and students...
...Force 25,000, the Navy 15,000, and the Marines 10,000, bringing total military manpower down to 2,600,000. The Air Force will come down five wings to 123; the Army will probably drop another division to 15 (but will withdraw troops from no overseas area except Japan); the Navy will mothball 35 operating ships. Further cuts may turn out to be necessary, Wilson hinted, when his successor, Procter & Gamble's President Neil Hosier McElroy, gets to working out the defense budget for fiscal...
Died. Soemu Toyoda, 72, fat, chauvinistic wartime Japanese admiral, chief of the Naval General Staff when Japan surrendered, onetime (1943) commandant of Japan's Yokosuka naval base; of a heart attack; in Tokyo...
Burning Issue. In Tokyo, apologizing for its delay in filling orders for musical cigarette lighters that play I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire, the Japan Central Exchange Mail Order Service explained: "The factory burned down...