Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What to do with a slightly deaf, incipiently bronchial, incurably mettlesome aviator? The Chinese knew. Thy were at war with Japan in 1937, and they invited him over to whip their hodgepodge of an air force into battle trim. Now he was in his natural element. He sent radio-equipped coolies to the far frontiers to crank out warning of every Nipponese air strike. He saw the big show coming, and by Pearl Harbor, bossed an air force of trained American volunteers, which never numbered more than 55 flyable P-40s and 80 pilots. For $600 a month...
...that point, the debate had been for the most part one between the two old adversaries. But now, meticulous, bespectacled Koto Matsudaira of Japan spoke up for the first time to express his government's "misgivings" over the U.S. intervention, and said that he would try to seek some sort of compromise. To add to the U.S.'s discomfiture, bald Omar Loutfi of the United Arab Republic produced a letter from the president of the Lebanese Parliament denouncing U.S. intervention as an infringement of Lebanese sovereignty. Finally, as the second day ended, still another sour note was sounded...
...this point the delegate from Japan, worried about the U.S. position, got ready his compromise. He proposed the creation of a larger and really effective U.N. team, which would permit the U.S. to withdraw its troops with some assurance that the independence and integrity of Lebanon would be preserved. If the Russians were really concerned about getting U.S. troops withdrawn, they could hardly object. But who could say that this was what the Russians were really interested...
This method of building the commercial into the drama is the most distinctive feature of television in Japan, a nation rapidly becoming as TV-obsessed as the U.S. In a soap opera, A Comic Housemaid, the heroine habitually complains of a racking headache in midscene, gulps down an Arakawa Drug Co. remedy and announces: "Now I'm ready for anything." One private eye uses a drugstore as rendezvous-a drugstore whose shelves are conspicuously filled with the sponsor's patent medicines. In another samurai episode, the hero vanquished a batch of evildoers, then warily approached a wayside shrine...
After five years of operation, Japan now has 1,400,000 sets in operation. No bar, restaurant or coffeehouse can afford to be without one. There are quiz programs, broadcasts of baseball games and many imported U.S. film series (Emperor Hirohito's favorite program is Superman). Viewers who want no part of commercials can tune in on the 19 government-run stations, which operate on the lines of Britain's BBC. But the seven commercial stations have more business than they can handle and their number is increasing by the month; by year's end commercial stations...