Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of the idealist, and has quite an unrealistic picture of what the medium of the theatre actually is. He seems to be under the impression that the theatre has something to do with life--by citing for us the French company of Cannes and the classic theatre of Japan, two schools that have nothing to do with 'method' acting. To say that the goal of acting is a perfect photograph of human behavior is to say that poetry must not be poetical or music musical...
...Tokyo the time of the rains had passed and hot and humid summer settled firmly in on the rickety, raucous, jerry-built capital that has sprung up from the ashes and rubble of 1945. Tokyo, Japan's capital since 1868, was before World War II a sort of oriental Washington, D.C. Officially, only a limited number of nightclubs were permitted in the capital, and the sword-swinging prewar Japanese police force saw to it that decorum was the order of the day as well as the night. Now all this has changed. In twelve feverish, prosperous postwar years, Tokyo...
...total effect of the U.S. influence has yet to be evaluated. Says one American resident in Tokyo: "They are using us like gunpowder-to blow up the thick walls of old custom." Gunpowder or not, the Western influence, matched by Japan's own singular drive and energy, is giving the country the highest living standard in the Far East. And the living standard in Tokyo is higher than anywhere else in the four main rich and fertile islands of Japan. This, in part, is responsible for Tokyo's spectacular population increase, which now averages about 250,000 annually...
This kind of justice to G.I.s might make some U.S. citizens feel better about turning over U.S. Soldier William Girard to the Japanese courts, but Tokyo's Mainichi had a deeper worry: "This is like telling the world that in Japan you can do anything if you are drunk. Perhaps we should advertise Japan abroad not as the land of Mt. Fuji and geishas but as a paradise for alcoholics." About twelve Japanese a year win acquittal on murder charges by proving they were drunk or drugged (a plea that is no defense at all in U.S. courts). Announced...
...this year. Major maritime nations (excluding U.S.S.R., Red China) are now working on some 1,700 ships totaling 8,778,000 gross tons-up 20% from same period last year-and have additional orders for 24 million tons of new vessels, nearly two-thirds of them tankers. Front-running Japan launched 503,000 tons of shipping in June quarter, but British builders are ahead in shipping under construction, with 2,000,0000 tons v. 1,500,000 tons for Japan...