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Word: japanized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual convention of the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association in Sendai City, the nation's top newsmen gladdened the hearts of the geisha by spending yen as if they were sen. It was expense account money, handed out by their hard-pressed business offices with orders to spend it as conspicuously as possible. The object: to achieve the utmost face and to give the impression that Japanese newspapers were doing just great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Impartiality Gone Haywire | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...face-saving in Sendai City, 190 miles north of Tokyo, was a symptom of the ills that have turned Japan's press into a flabby-muscled giant. The 186 Japanese dailies have built up a daily circulation of nearly 36 million, trail only the U.S. (58 million) and Russia (57 million), exceed the rest of Asia, Africa and South America combined. In ratio to population, the Japanese circulation approximates that of the U.S., far exceeds Russia's. Biggest Japanese daily is Tokyo's outsized Asahi, which has four regional publishing plants and a staff of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Impartiality Gone Haywire | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Glaring Error. In Chitose, Japan, after a thief had removed three of four radar reflectors from the landing strip of a nearby U.S. Air Base and a ground radar man had detected the fourth and last reflector drifting off on his scope, police, summoned by the radarman, found the reflector loaded on the bicycle of Shigeru Takagi, 32, who confessed that he had taken the others, but grumbled that a local pawnshop had paid him only $2.78 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Eisenhower, who refused Tariff Commission's recommendation to double 30% duty on umbrella frames. Boost would have aided four U.S. producers, who employ fewer than 500 workers and whose unit sales are running about 10% ahead of last year. It would have irritated friendly exporter nations such as Japan, West Germany, Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Neither will moviegoers. Director Huston's eye for the limpid beauty of Japan's gardens, houses, temples and harbors is outstandingly true, but this time his ear and his touch have gone sour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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