Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon moved up to the same job in the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces. In the last year of the war, while serving simultaneously as Deputy Chief of Air Staff and chief of staff of the Twentieth Air Force, he helped to set up the B-29 raids on Japan, including the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Japan's lean little Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the U.S.'s bulky rangy Secretary of State John Foster Dulles have one thing very much in common: they both like to travel. In the eleven months since he took over the premiership from aging, ailing Tanzan Isibashi, Kishi has set a dizzying pace. Last May he took off for a tour of six Southeastern Asian nations, followed up with a state visit to Washington. Last week Kishi was in the air again, this time on a tour of eight nations, including Australia and the Philippines...
...parliamentary luncheon (boycotted by some Australian Laborites who refused to mix socially with the Japanese), Prime Minister Robert Menzies proposed a toast to the Emperor of Japan. "Well," said one M.P. to an ex-P.W.: "I don't suppose you ever thought you'd drink to Hirohito's health when you were in that Jap prison camp in Malaya." The ex-P.W. grinned and drank his toast. Said Kishi later, in a forthright speech: "It is my official duty, and my personal desire, to express to you and through you to the people of Australia...
Turtle Afloat. Koreans proudly point back to the days when the country was the base from which Buddhism was launched in Japan, and a prime influence on Japan's ceramic art. Not only did Koreans print with movable type 50 years before Gutenberg, and launch an ironclad ship (in the form of a turtle) that devastated the Japanese fleet in 1592, but over the centuries they have made a rich contribution to the art of the Orient...
...Donald P. Kircher, 42, vice president of Singer Manufacturing Co. since 1952, was picked as president to succeed 67-year-old Milton C. Lightner (see Management). Kircher, whose latest assignment has been overseeing Singer's current overseas expansion (Brazil, Japan, the Philippines and Australia) as Lightner's assistant, was born in St. Paul, Minn., graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1939, joined the Manhattan law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts. He served 21 months in Europe during World War II as a tank commander, was twice wounded, returned to the U.S. with three Silver Stars...