Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century ago the first Protestant missionaries set foot in Japan.† What they found was not merely indifference or suspicion, but a ferocious hatred of Christianity that had been fostered by three centuries of relentless persecution. In last week's Christian Century, Presbyterian Missionary Richard H. Drummond tells of the all-but-forgotten martyrdom of Japan's first Christians...
...third of its present 91.6 million population. (About half a million are now Christian.) Buddhism was in decline; people were impressed by the Jesuits' European science and their surprising concern for social morality and the sanctity of human life. The success of the new religion soon convinced Japan's feudal warlords that Jesus Christ was dangerous competition, and they went to work with social pressure, torture and slaughter...
Villainous Christians. In the 19th century, when Townsend Harris, the first U.S. consul, was working out the first commercial treaty with Japan, the main difficulties he met concerned religious freedom for foreigners. Persecution of Japanese Christians was modified somewhat in 1871, when a Japanese diplomatic mission to the U.S. and Europe was greeted by a storm of indignation at the recent deportation of 60 Christian heads of families in the Nagasaki* area. In 1873 the shogunate removed the notices posted in every Japanese marketplace and on street corners threatening death to anyone who turned Christian or harbored Christians. But until...
...Commanded Eighth Army (1955) and U.N. forces (1955-57) in the delicate cease-fire period when the U.S. nursed its local allies (South Korea, Japan, Nationalist China) into shape to carry more of their own defense load. Specifics: he put down South Korean riots against U.S. troops (provocation: the U.S. agreed to Communist truce supervisors), spearheaded the Defense Department's successful efforts to solve the land crisis which threatened permanent political unrest on Okinawa, the U.S.'s main Far East defense position...
...drive, efficiency and muscular opposition to Communism. Noted at home for tough stands on Catholic issues (e.g., his hassle with Eleanor Roosevelt over publicly paid transportation for parochial schools, his frequent criticism of movies he considered indecent), he traveled tirelessly, has spent many Christmases with U.S. troops in Japan, Korea and Europe in his capacity as military vicar to the armed forces...