Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decades before Pearl Harbor, when the population of Japan was growing by almost 1,000,000 every year, warlords used population pressure as an excuse to conquer or dominate foreign lands. But World War II defeat brought more than one remarkable change. Last week, after six years of study, the government's Population Research Institute announced that Japan's birthrate has been cut in half, and is now one of the world's lowest. In 1932 the average family boasted 5.8 children; today it has under three...
...mother can show that otherwise her health might be harmed, or that "unbearable" economic hardship might result. Margaret Sanger argued that too frequent abortions are also injurious to health, and Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi agreed. In the past year alone, there have been 1,500,000 abortions in Japan...
...phonograph record course in any of 34 languages and such offbeat items as a Dormiphone, which drills a student in vocabulary while he sleeps; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Polish-born Sherover once edited a socialist newspaper in Buffalo, published a five-language trade journal in Japan, built a Brooklyn hotel. Able to converse in twelve languages, he used to startle garrulous cab drivers by correctly guessing their birthplaces...
Died. Hitoshi Ashida, 71, Premier (1948) of Japan, who went to jail briefly when his scandal-ridden coalition government (though backed by General MacArthur) collapsed after seven months, a member of the Diet in the 30s, who criticized Japan's military aggression; of cancer; in Tokyo...
Street of Shame (Japanese). A study of prostitution in Japan, made by the late Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) in a mood that merges Dickens and documentary...