Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kishi would need all his aplomb in the coming month as he tours eleven countries in Europe and the Americas. His object : to gain face for his countrymen, who morbidly nurse a national feeling that Japan, while growing economically strong, is still "the orphan of Asia," disliked by its neighbors, ignored or discounted by the West. Sensitive Japanese are already wincing at the journalists' jeers in England at the discovery that a London public relations firm had been hired to boost the Premier's stock there. Other Japanese fear a disaster like the visit to London of Foreign...
There is a constant hoarding of rebuffs. Australia's Foreign Minister Richard Casey was recently in Tokyo, and things went swimmingly until he was asked when Australia would admit a limited number of Japanese. Said Casey: "Never!" Commented a bitterJapanese: "Australia bars Asians; Japan has 1,500,000 abortions a year to hold the population down to tolerable levels. The 'White Australia' policy is only made possible by Japanese self-restraint...
...national policy. Textile exports to the U.S. and Europe are voluntarily controlled to avoid provoking tariff quotas; export licenses are refused for inferior articles in an effort to upgrade the longstanding Japanese reputation for poor workmanship and imitative design. In his effort to convince the West that Japan deserves less suspicion and more comradeship, Kishi can boast that his nation is the most democratic in Asia, has the highest literacy rate, and possesses a competent work force whose real wages have risen 20% in the past five years...
...Japanese binoculars, microscopes and cameras that not only crowd German products abroad but are making inroads at home. Steelmen in the Ruhr are disturbed at the recent appearance of competitively priced Japanese rolled steel in European markets. Premier Kishi will try to soothe ruffled feelings by pointing out that Japan buys more than twice as much from West Germany as it sells...
Premier Kishi can point out that the Japanese government is honestly fighting against unethical practices. Last year the government itself sponsored an exhibition of horrible examples of design stealing by Japanese manufacturers in order to help eliminate this blot on Japan's business reputation