Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning 25, Japan's slender, donnish Prince Akihito downed green tea and bean cakes at a sedate trio of parties (one with his kin, another with Fiancee Michiko Shoda, a third with 60 old classmates at Gakushuin University), tentatively accepted a birthday gift designed to cement the bonds between the budget-conscious imperial family and a local construction firm: an offer to build the foundations and outer shell (cost: $150,000) of Akihito's new, 45-room palace for a kowtowing $27.78. Apparently more concerned with imperial honor than with imperial bargains, however, Tokyo's noisy newspapers...
...Japan has the second biggest (after Hollywood) in terms of number of movies and footage shot...
...troops-including 90,000 on Quemoy, 25,000 on Matsu-and an air force of 400 jet fighters spearheaded by F-86 Sabre jet interceptors of Korean-war vintage. The U.S. had in the area the 100-ship, 300-or-so-plane Seventh Fleet, the Fifth Air Force in Japan, the Thirteenth Air Force in the Philippines...
...side of the carrier St. Lo. The St. Lo sank. Over a 130-mile front, other Japanese planes dived against her sister carriers. That night, Oct. 25, 1944, Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo announced the launching of the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps, named for the "divine wind" that had saved Japan from Mongol invasion in 1281. The 1944 corps was Japan's effort to whistle up an equally effective wind. It failed, but bloodily; with an expenditure of 1,228 planes and pilots, the Japanese sank 34 U.S. ships, damaged 288, took a heavy toll of life...
...bulk of The Divine Wind goes far toward fulfilling the Japanese authors' hope of disclosing what was going on in the minds of the Kamikaze men-among them Admiral Onishi. With Japan's decision to surrender, marking the failure of his divine wind, he committed harakiri. At its organization, Onishi had presented the Kamikaze staff with a launching poem...