Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Household Board rode last week across the moat surrounding the Imperial Palace and was whisked along Tokyo's streets to the Gotanda district. The car drew up before the high-gabled, ten-room house of Hidesaburo Shoda, president of the Nis-shin Flour Milling Co., the largest in Japan...
...Nationalists considerable light industry as well as the Yumen oilfield-still China's biggest. Under Nationalist rule China's industrial production had risen 80% between 1933 and 1945. By the time Mao appeared, the stage was set for a Chinese industrial revolution comparable to that experienced by Japan in the 1880s or Germany under Bismarck. All that was missing was peace and a strong, central government...
...noted a British economist, "defy belief and baffle logic." But even if Communist figures could be trusted, Red China still has a long way to go before claiming to be a modern industrial state. Mainland China's rate of industrial growth last year was only half that of Japan's. By the end of its current six-year plan, Japan will have acquired new productive capacity greater than that of all the industrial plant Mao's China now has. The Chinese Communists have yet to produce an all-Chinese jet; their vaunted Manchurian "Detroit" still builds only...
After only four months, the Russo-Japanese war was turning into a Russian disaster. Banzai-shouting Japanese troops were pushing the Russians back in Manchuria; Port Arthur was cut off; and the proud Russian ships in the harbor were immobilized by the prowling warships of Japan's Admiral Togo. At that point in June 1904, Czar Nicholas II decided on a last, desperate gamble to relieve the Russian forces; he ordered Vice Admiral Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhestvensky to sail four brand-new Suvoroff battleships at the head of a task force of some 40 ships from their Baltic home ports...
...Japan could claim the most decisive naval victory since Trafalgar, ruled as a major seapower until her sun set in the flaming air-sea action of Leyte Gulf 40 years later. Admiral Rozhestvensky. saved when his officers carried him wounded and semiconscious from a disabled turret before the Suvoroff sank, had no excuses and offered none. On his way back to St. Petersburg for court martial (he was acquitted) and retirement, he said: "No, there was no treason. We just weren't strong enough-and God gave us no luck...