Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bury-the-hatchet tour of Southeast Asia last year, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi found the Filipinos least ready of all of Tokyo's World War II victims to forgive and forget. Only a military guard greeted him at Manila airport, and the Philippine public turned a cold shoulder. The stiffly formal meetings with Filipino officials were chilled by arguments over Japan's reparations payments ($550 million promised) to the Philippines. Last week, on the first anniversary of Kishi's icy reception in Manila, the Philippines' President Carlos Garcia went to Tokyo. Hoping that flattery...
Addressing a joint session of the Japanese Diet, something no foreigner had ever done, Garcia noted that Japan and the Philippines, "two of the countries in the Far East that have come under the beneficent influence of democracy," were caught by geography and defense strategy "in a portentous drama of titanic proportions." He was cheered mightily...
Touring the Japanese countryside, Garcia heard the cheers of dock workers, the praise of industrialists, even saw one of Japan's on-the-dot express trains brought to a halt so that his entourage could pass. "My God," remarked one Garcia aide, "the treatment we are getting! Here we are kings. In the United States [last June] we were beggars...
...fish of good fortune, as well as sake and silk. Akihito will present his future wife with a jeweled sword to protect her chastity, and the Emperor will bestow on her the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Crown, the highest decoration given a woman in Japan. Finally, the young couple will exchange love poems, written on pink paper and enclosed in boxes made of willow...
...ritual, Akihito's betrothal was hailed in Japan as the imperial family's greatest leap toward democracy since Hirohito threw off the myth of imperial divinity in 1946. Not only was the engagement "a triumph of youth and love." said Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, it had "shattered court conventions." "The prince," said the Japan Times, "has set a seal on the democratization of Japan." For Akihito. who has long rebelled against living behind a "chrysanthemum curtain," there will be other seals to set. When he was only three, he was, as tradition decreed, taken away from his parents...