Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kinney of Indiana University, but the Japanese were waiting in Tokyo with some swimmers of their own. Freestyler Tsuyoshi ("Strong Will") Yamanaka, 20, won the 200 meters (2:02.3), the 400 meters (4:22.3), the 800 meters (9:09.7), and the 1,500 meters (17:47.5). Final score: Japan, 41; U.S., 38. At a second meet, Yamanaka lowered the 400-meter record by 2.4 sec. to 4:16.6, then anchored the 800-meter relay team as it broke its own world record by 2.9 sec. with a startling time of 8:18.7. But McKinney splashed home...
...President Matsutaro Shoriki, 74, had tried the same sort of approach seven years ago when his TV network was just getting started in black and white. He spotted 220 RCA receivers in parks, railroad stations, back alleys. Today, with about 4,000,000 black-and-white receivers across Japan, NTV earns a profit of more than $1,000,000 a year...
...Japan today, there are exactly six color TV receivers in the hands of private owners. But at 60 railroad stations and other public places within transmitting distance of Tokyo last week, hundreds of thousands of Japanese enthusiastically gathered before sets supplied by the Nippon Television Network and watched two hours of daily color programs...
...taped Perry Como show for a year. With such attractions, he figures that demand will soon drive the price of color receivers down far enough to fit the budget of the average televiewer, is planning to set up color studios all over Southeast Asia. Says Shoriki : "I want Japan to be the first country in the world to have full-scale color TV in operation. I want Japan to beat...
...lights should also brighten Japan's knowledge of Western art. Though the collection is not all first caliber, there are some great works, especially of sculpture (see color pages). Valued at $5,000,000, it was put together in the early part of the century by a Japanese shipbuilder named Kojiro Matsukata, who bought largely by lot, and reportedly paid between $15 million and $20 million all told. Because the Japanese government imposed a 100% duty on art works, Matsukata kept the bulk of his collection in Paris and London. The London half was bombed out in World...