Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to legend, the mirror represents the sun-goddess Amaterasu Omikami, ancestress of all Japanese emperors and the sword Japan's national strength...
...Although Japan may be a soldiers' paradise, the men who wanted and want to go home are not soldiers, but are civilians in uniform...
...year after V-J day some Japs in Brazil were still convinced that Japan was undefeated. They had been told so by swindling fellow countrymen with a reason. The swindlers were still selling Java and Philippine victory stocks to gullible compatriots. They were using terrorism to keep the myth and their market alive...
Working through the powerful Shindo Remmei society, the swindlers had sparked fanatics into a homicidal campaign against all Japs "who did not behave like patriots and deny the lie of Japan's defeat." A gang, rounded up outside a small town in the state of Sâo Paulo, was typical. "It is an honor," shouted one gunman, ". . . [to murder] our defeatist countrymen!" For showing "defeatism," 70 Japs have met death in the past five months...
During the next ten years, the Maryknollers will concentrate hardest on Christianizing Japan. Because defeat discredited Buddhism and Shintoism, the Japanese are turning to Christianity, "the religion of the victors." But the Japanese have other reasons with which the Maryknoll missionaries sympathize and on which they intend to capitalize. Explained one of them last week: "The Japanese think now that the only real danger to their progress toward becoming a stable power is Communism, and they know that the Catholic Church is the implacable enemy of Communism...