Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indonesia's President Sukarno, packing up for a six-week tour of nations ranging from India to Egypt and Japan, seemed in a heady mood. "Last year," he told a Djakarta gathering, "was the year of decision. We have reached the point of no return...
This cynical couplet from Shakespeare's As You Like It would shock the traditionalists of Japan, who cherish in song and story the tales of true lovers pledged in death. Last year 3,000 Japanese girls between the ages of 15 and 24 killed themselves, and 1,000 of these died in suicide pacts with their lovers. Last week Japan was sentimentally creating a new legend about a new pair of star-crossed lovers...
Over a period of nearly five years, ever-increasing numbers (latest count: 952) of Japanese fishermen have languished in South Korean President Syngman Rhee's jails across the Tsushima Strait, pawns in a diplomatic stalemate created entirely by Rhee's longstanding hatred of Japan. "Korea has only three enemies." cried Rhee recently: "Japan, Russia and China...
Syngman Rhee has never made peace with Japan, has demanded, among other reparations. "40 years back pay" for Korean workers exploited by Japanese companies during Japan's long occupation. In 1952 Rhee arbitrarily set up the so-called "Rhee line" which extended Korean sovereignty a minimum 60 miles offshore, began arresting any Japanese fishermen caught violating...
...Japan retaliated by arresting some 1,720 Koreans, most of them illegal immigrants, others habitual criminals and longtime residents of Japan. In this atmosphere, talks between Japan and Korea have inevitably been difficult. Four years ago in Tokyo the Korean delegation walked out in a huff when a Japanese spokesman ventured that Japan's occupation of Korea was not entirely bad, that Korea had benefited to the extent of railroads, power systems and public buildings...