Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mixed blessings the U.S. conferred on conquered Japan was the abrupt introduction of equal rights for women. Japanese women now have the right to vote, the right to sue for divorce (some 10,000 exercise it annually), and Japanese wives-except in the most backward rural areas-no longer must dutifully walk ten paces behind their husbands...
...parents soon found the reason. "We concentrate," blandly explained their son's teacher, an avowed Marxist, "on the real forces that made our country's history-the class struggle, the search for markets and profits. The history of Japan in modern times has been one of economic oppression at home and aggression abroad." But was that not a rather sweeping generalization? asked the father. Replied the teacher: "I'm only repeating what General MacArthur said...
Chauvinism Out. Of all the legacies of the postwar occupation, none has had a more ironic effect than U.S. efforts to democratize Japan's schools. Old, chauvinistic textbooks were discarded, traditional shushin (moral training) abolished, Japanese history drastically cut down. Today the primary schools (ages 6 to 12) completely ignore Japanese history; the junior high schools (12 to 15) give it only one year. Even worse: the little history that is taught largely follows the Communist line...
Though the Ministry of Education is supposed to pass on all textbooks, those who really do the selecting are members of the powerful (500,000 teachers) Japan Teachers' Union, which is dominated by Marxists. Each year Japan's publishers woo the teachers at "hot spring parties," and the teachers see to it that Marxist texts get adopted by their schools. One such text, Model Junior High Social Study, was edited by the author of the story that inspired the anti-American film Hiroshima, is nothing but a propaganda tract against capitalism and Western imperialism. Another book, Enlightened Society...
...cases were described by doctors as increasingly serious. Said one: "We have no explanation as yet. but it seems that the virus is now stronger than the previous week." Abandoning their now ineffective treatment of aspirin or linden-flower potion, health officials fought the virus, identified as "Japan 305," with such antibiotics as streptomycin and achromycin...