Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalist Chinese capital of Taipei on Formosa. Kishi was met by a crowd of more than 600, whisked off from the airport in a 15-car motorcade to the official guest house, which housed the Japanese Governors-General in Japan's prewar days as ruler of Formosa. Kishi presented Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with two embroidered silk comforter covers (a standard Japanese wedding gift), received in turn from the Gimo two grass bed mats and a decorative ship model fashioned from pale pink seashells. The old enemies got along quite well...
...Formosa Kishi called British unilateral abandonment of the Communist China trade differential (TIME, June 10) "regrettable." But in Washington he is expected to make a strong presentation of Japan's case for similarly increased trade with Red China...
...their own Kanji entries that the paper started a Nipponoodle contest and appointed a full-time Nipponoodle editor, who found that it was "like taking a perpetual Rorschach test." With more than 12,000 commonly used characters to draw from, crazy Kanji fever swept the U.S. colony in Japan and erupted into a Stars & Stripes anthology of the 100 best Nippo-noodles. To let the folks back home in on the fun, a U.S. publisher (Greenberg; New York) will put out a civilian version of the Nipponoodle book next month. For some typical Nipponoodles, see below...
...manufacturing and research facilities. They were big enough by 1928 to acquire the Mackay companies, including Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. (eventually merged with Western Union). Until 1930, Sosthenes' tireless negotiating made I.T. & T. grow throughout the world, spread the company into Argentina, Australia, Belgium, China, England, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Rumania...
PERSONAL &ORIENTAL, By Austin Coates (260 pp.; Harper; $4), takes the reader to the Far East-Japan, Hong Kong, Burma, the Philippines, India. Author Coates, a son of the British composer-conductor Eric Coates and a colonial official in the Far East, travels by emotional radar. He waits for snatches of dialogue, mystic moods, glimpsed scenes, to flash like pips across his screen of consciousness and tell him how a people feels or where it is going. Such pips often come at the oddest moments. A smartly dressed, tart-tongued Chinese career woman from Hong Kong brought Coates a pair...