Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time really stripped of convention and pretense. I began to get a new idea of human values. I was forced to the conclusion that the war had been futile from the start, and that I should have tried to stop it. I became convinced that Japan must never again be involved...
Political Career. Well established as a business tycoon (pulp, chemicals) when finally "depurged" in 1952, onetime Bureaucrat Kishi took a long, hard look at resurgent Japan. went into politics. He soon became the dominant figure in the backstage maneuverings from which: 1) Japan's two big feuding conservative parties, the Liberals and the Democrats, were merged into the gigantic Liberal-Democratic Party and ranged in solid opposition to the Socialists and Communists; and 2) Kishi himself emerged last winter as Foreign Minister under 72-year-old Premier Tanzan Ishibashi. Four months ago, Nobusuke Kishi became his country...
...Japanese-U.S. relations that he will raise with Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. Basic to Kishi's problem, as his political opponents are well aware, is an ominous statistic for a country that must export to live: since World War II, Japan's population has increased more than 20%, now stands at 90 million, while the land area available has decreased by more than 40% from the heyday of the empire. The obvious remedy: increased trade in any of three directions: i) the Red Chinese mainland, 2) the U.S., 3) Southeast Asia. Premier Kishi...
Wisdom & Wine. Before the court were the 1953 cases of Dorothy Krueger Smith and Clarice Covert. Mrs. Smith, daughter of wartime Army General Walter Krueger, was found guilty by a court-martial of stabbing her husband, an Army colonel, to death in their quarters in Japan. A court-martial convicted Mrs. Covert of the ax murder of her husband, an Air Force master sergeant, in England. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that their military convictions and life sentences for murder were valid, with Justices Tom Clark, Harold Burton, Stanley Reed. Sherman Minton and John Marshall Harlan in the majority...
...woody top of Mount Koya, south of Osaka in Japan, are scores of ancient temples and pilgrim hostels that make up the spiritual center of the influential Buddhist sect called Shingon-shu. Last week the shaven-pated monks of Shingon-shu climbed out of their black robes into a strange new garb called a baseball uniform, began pitching a stitched leather ball around and swinging at it with a wooden club called...