Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wait meekly for his dismissal. Kishi cashed in on Japan's economic boom by sweeping last year's elections, and promptly edged Minister of State Kono out of the Cabinet to the party board chairmanship. Then last fall Kishi ran into heavy public and parliamentary opposition to his bill for beefing up Japan's long-feared police (TIME, Nov. 17). Though members of his own party joined in the criticism of the Premier, Kono urged him to go ahead and ram his police bill through. As the din in the Diet grew louder, Kishi saw a sweet...
First among the North American Protestant mission countries is now India, with 1,883 from the U.S. and Canada; next comes Japan, with 1,549. The Near and Middle East can claim only 2.96% of the total missionary force. Protestant women missionaries now outnumber the men by three...
...Japan, where 23,500 people killed themselves last year, and the suicide rate increases by 5% a year, Candy Salesman Akira Emoto, 31. was long regarded as a candidate for the statistics column. He brooded, he ate sleeping pills and last summer he tried to poison himself. "Just you wait." he told friends in the southern city of Kokonoe, "very soon I shall do something that will startle the nation...
...Happy for Me." Bill wrote in English to the Japanese admirals, addressed his letters merely to "Imperial Naval Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan." But last week as he prepared to write his paper, Bill had a prize to include...
...been criticized for turning back into San Bernardino Strait, north of Samar when he might have dealt a telling blow to a U.S. force inferior in speed and firepower. But Shima offers the schoolboy historian an understandable summing up of Japanese hesitancy at Leyte: "A further defeat meant to Japan no longer incidental losses but loss of life itself...