Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls make a fascinating study in feminine contrasts. Miyoshi takes life as it comes, one small step at a time. Pat grasps for it all-hungry, anxious, impatient. Japan-born Miyoshi moves slowly, precisely, with cautious grace; at 29, she is American by solemn determination, but she still lives in the ordered, traditional world of her tight little island home. California-born Pat Suzuki, 28, is American by instinct, chafed by restrictions, careless of customs, and in a hurry. It is possible to see in Pat and Miyoshi the embodiment of the ancient, universal Chinese principles of Yang...
...Miyoshi had when she hit the States, she promptly spent on presents for her family. Night after night she would sing in some small nightclub, say a polite "Thank you" (her only English words at the time). She felt lost; even the strange food bothered her. She sent to Japan for squid, waited until everyone in her apartment house had gone to bed, then cooked the dried delicacy on an electric stove. "They all get up and say, 'What's that awful smell...
Legacy of Suspicion. At Osaka, Garcia delivered his message to Japanese merchants: "Among Japan's underdeveloped neighbors, the wounds of battle have not been completely healed. We know the most effective way to wipe out the legacy of suspicion and hostility is for Japan to extend them credits...
When he boarded his Viscount for home, Garcia had the promise of $48.8 million in loans from Japan to help him build the Marikina Dam, buy machinery and to expand the Philippine telephone system. He tactfully made no mention of another part of the Japanese reparations: a $2,500,000 yacht now being built in Tokyo for the exclusive use of the President of the Philippines himself...
...Kure, Japan, the onetime Japanese Imperial Naval Yard, now operated by U.S. Tanker Tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig's National Bulk Carriers, Inc., launched the world's largest tanker, the 104,500-ton (loaded) Universe Apollo. The first of five planned supertankers, the Universe surpasses the largest previous bulk carriers, Ludwig's 85,000-ton tankers. With a length of 950 ft. and a beam of 135 ft., Universe Apollo is the widest merchant ship afloat, and the third longest (ranking after the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary...