Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frightening cry that once signaled the suicidal charges of Japan's doomed Pacific Island armies echoed through Tokyo this week. More than 100,000 cheering Japanese swarmed over the outer grounds of Emperor Hirohito's palace to shout "Banzai!" to his promulgation of Nippon's new, democratically worded constitution (effective May 7). The Emperor & Empress showed themselves for only five minutes, but that was long enough to get oldsters weeping. A college student expressed the new Japan, enthusiastically "democratic," yet still tied to the Emperor by fantastically exaggerated loyalty: "I consider it the greatest...
...Emperor had chosen "Meiji setsu" -birthday of the Emperor Meiji, who made Japan a modern power and Shinto a war-inspiring state religion-to proclaim democracy. Tokyo's famous Meiji shrine staged a three-day festival that included a tea ceremony and geisha dances, but at the same time the government began distribution of new "democratic" photographs of the Emperor, in civilian instead of military dress. Nagasaki residents held a snake dance and a poetry contest on the subject: "Reconstruction from the Atomic Bomb...
...constitution gave Japan a pattern for democracy. The Japanese are now faced with the responsibility of making practice fit the pattern. Aged statesman Yukio Ozaki warned that the Japanese moral code-"based on murder and falsehood"-must be radically altered, predicted that three generations would be needed to educate Japanese to the meaning of the new constitution. Said Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, as it prepared to publicize and interpret the constitution's text and meaning: "Only when we have created a state or society in which we can get along perfectly well without knowing a single article...
...love life of the silkworm had become a matter of grave national concern in Japan. Before the war, Japan had controlled about 85% of the world's silk market. Now she had to compete with U.S. nylon. Last week the patter of tiny feet in mating trays of Tokyo's Imperial Sericulture Experiment Station bore witness to the frantic race between Japanese entomologists and U.S. chemists...
...advice of personally chosen advisors. The Congress, for better or worse, is chosen by thirty to forty-five million individuals. It represents, those people. Never forget that a dominated, controlled or purged legislative body has been the rubber stamp of personal or palace guard government in Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia...