Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet way, Far East Military Expert Lemnitzer helped build Japan's postwar defense forces, was a key figure in the successful diplomatic byplay that enabled the U.S. to keep strategic Okinawa in the face of growing local opposition. Says one Army general: "What Dulles was in civilian clothes to the Far East, Lemnitzer was in a uniform...
...selection was made by Mom and Dad. but Japan's bubbly Princess Suga, 20-year-old sister of Prince Akihito, had no objections. Some time this fall, the imperial household announced, Suga will wed a childhood friend, gangly Hisanaga Shimazu, 25. bank clerk, scion of a blue-blooded family and a classmate of Akihito's at the Gakushuin (Peers' School). According to custom. Hisanaga had called on his future father-in-law, who will build the newlyweds a house and provide a $42,000 dowry. And what, asked newsmen, had the Emperor said? "He just asked...
...chapbooks. But his heart was in his clear, spare, melodic verse about nature. He was 46 when he published the thin volume entitled Poems (1917), which fellow poets promptly ranked as one of the best works of the young century. Then Hodgson went off to teach English literature in Japan, and little more was heard...
Still, it is in his desire to reassert in individual terms vitality of the tradition that has underlaid Japan's artistic achievements in the past that Munakata experiments so extensively with Occidental styles. In this devilishly difficult task, he has succeeded; his art, at its best, is entirely personal and modern, yet also perfectly Japanese...
...difference: instead of parents' having the final say, the young men and women have obtained a reasonable veto power, and, after a miai, will often see each other for several months before making a decision. Says an observer: "A lot of things are changing in Japan, but if I were asked to predict which institution will prove more durable, the go-between or the geisha, I would say the go-between...