Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waltz in the Street. In Osaka, Japan, to soothe motorists waiting for a long light at a busy intersection, police rigged a tape recorder that plays The Blue Danube while the light...
...gasuri, a rare, 150-year-old hand-weaving process using white cotton threads and blue dye to produce unique dappled patterns. Tomikichi Moriyama, 70, and his wife Toyono, 67, hand weavers, were delighted with the honor when it came two years ago. After all, only ten other weavers in Japan-most now too old for work-knew Kurume-gasuri] the Moriyamas' son Torao, like most younger people, preferred more profitable machine weaving...
...Wing, which keeps house for bases stretching all the way to Iwo Jima, is normally a genial and patient man, but ever since he took over his command in 1957 he has been disgusted by the way the wives and children of his officers and airmen were behaving in Japan. He fired his first salvo last fall, when he bluntly declared that "a large number of our military dependent children have for all practical purposes been deserted by their par ents." He blamed "cheap entertainment in the clubs and cheap domestic help in the home." Japanese maids, says Colonel Johnstone...
...Japan's comely Crown Princess Michiko, 24, suddenly stopped appearing at public functions with Crown Prince Akihito only three months after the royal wedding (TIME, April 20). Then the imperial household's chamberlain issued a very cautious bulletin: Michiko "may be with child," but the doctors are not yet absolutely positive...
...desert, or to make a casual bet that she could go around the world on ?5. She won that bet. On the trip she dined with Lord Kitchener in a dahabeah on the Nile, made an expedition by elephant through the Ceylonese jungle, married an Italian count in Japan, found herself pregnant, and back in England, got news that her husband was dead...