Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prewar Japan, such an act by a university student would have been unthinkable. Today student crimes have become one of Japan's major problems. Once limited to the well-to-do, higher education is now open to thousands of boys and girls who work their way through school. In addition to the 165 colleges and universities Japan had before the war, 335 new ones have sprung up. But what might have been an unmixed blessing has brought with it a curse. Last year 5,664 students were arrested for major crimes; of these, one in five came from...
...feuding students from Rikkyo and Nippon Universities started a riot in a beer hall. Result: one student dead. ¶ In June, three students from Komazawa, Japan's foremost Buddhist university, were arrested for assault and attempted rape after breaking into a public bathhouse and attacking two bathhouse maids...
Last week Japan stepped up a nationwide campaign against the big crime wave. It ordered increased street patrols for the summer, began sending out pamphlets to parents and teachers on how to deal with delinquents, assigned crime-prevention specialists to lecture at civic organizations across the country. Meanwhile, local school boards are increasing their budgets to train teachers in guidance; the Tokyo board alone will spend fully one-third of its funds to combat delinquency. Said Director of Detectives Heiichi Kosugi of the Tokyo police: "If something is not done soon, the universities will become hotbeds of intelligent crime...
...JAPAN'S FINANCIAL PINCH will be eased by $175 million loan from U.S. Export-Import Bank to be used to buy U.S. farm goods without draining low Japanese dollar supply. With the credit Japan will import U.S. cotton, wheat, barley and soybeans, for which it is No. 1 foreign customer...
...Class A" war criminal (released in 1955) of lung cancer; in Tokyo. Stocky, dynamic Hashimoto, whose narrow military training, ignorance of the outside world and hatred of foreigners led him to believe in an easy, speedy victory over Russia, Britain and the U.S., organized the superpatriotic Japan Youth Party in 1936, and with it as political leverage, instigated the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay (1937) with no effective discipline by higher army authority, went on to oust conservative rulers and join the clique that provoked war against the West. He once declared: "Britain, the United States and France...