Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Budget Bureau and the White House. He has a widespread reputation as a man of war and big bombs, but devoutly religious Lewis Strauss, a longtime president of New York's Congregation Emanu-El, is a man who opposed the decision to drop A-bombs on Japan in 1945, worked devotedly to promote the U.S.'s Atoms for Peace program, and says: "I look forward to the day when there won't be any military use [for atomic energy]. It may not come in my lifetime, but it will come...
...highly stylized mixture of musical drama and myth that the Imperial Dancers brought with them is known as Gagaku, meaning "noble and elegant music." Imported to Japan from China in the 8th century A.D., Gagaku was confined to the court in the 17th century, has been seen by the general public only since the end of World War II. No longer supported by the court, the troupe still uses the resplendent gold-and-silk costumes privately owned by the Emperor; a Pinkerton man is guarding them during the troupe's 16 Manhattan performances. (The troupe will also...
...Japan's fast-growing electronics industry scored a notable success. Under a threeyear, $8,000,000 contract, Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. began turning out upward of 75,000 transistor radios, 800,000 transistors, and 1,000,000 vacuum tubes annually for International General Electric, to be resold under the I.G.E. name in Europe, Asia and Africa. I.G.E. was the second major U.S. electronics company to decide to make a deal this year with the Japanese. In April Motorola put on sale in the U.S. a $29.95 shirt-pocket-size transistor radio with most of its parts made in Japan...
With the help of Bell Telephone Laboratories, RCA and General Electric patents, Japanese factories are turning out a rising tide of electronics goods for the home market as well as for export. This year Japanese consumers will spend $350 million for Japan-made radio and TV sets. Abroad, Japanese radios are being assembled in plants from the Philippines to Egypt. The U.S., which imported 2,300,000 Japanese radios last year, around a quarter of them for reexport, this year is buying at the annual rate of 3,600,000. Japanese manufacturers are not stopping with such consumer products. Three...
...Japan's success is based mainly upon low wages and high skills. The typical Japanese transistor worker is a deft-fingered, teen-aged girl, accumulating a dowry and delighted to work for $23.34 a month and dormitory space. Furthermore, the Japanese have successfully overcome their greatest drawback, the tendency to export poor-quality goods. The government refuses to license substandard products. Individual Japanese companies are even more exacting. Hitachi, Ltd. of Tokyo, one of the leading makers, recalled an entire U.S. shipment because one plastic case color ran slightly...