Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Japan launched the Greater East Asia War, Negishi, a skilled mechanic who had saved a little money, decided to go into business on his own. Soon, he owned six factories in Tokyo, making communications parts for the Japanese army. Negishi took off his overalls, moved with his wife and three children into a fine residential district. He invested some of his profits in miscellaneous real estate, including a pleasant country inn located in picturesque Chiba county, near Tokyo...
Last week, Chen Ming-jen defected to the Communists too. Another southward lunge brought the Communists within 215 miles of Canton, where weary Nationalist officials began packing again. Their next stop: Chungking, scene of their exile during most of the war with Japan. Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi hastily regrouped what was left of his forces at Hengyang...
...with Eels. The jazzu wave first rolled over Japan after the 1923 earthquake, when many Americans were there to aid in relief and reconstruction. It receded when the militarists took power, but began to rise again after the war. Dumpy little Noriko Awae, who sings the blues several shades lighter than her U.S. sisters, was soon a national figure. Yet in the last two years the blues have faded somewhat behind a blaze of boogie...
...Hattori saw some Japanese couples trying to jitterbug to the slow, sickly sort of green-blues which most Jap jazz-composers were turning out. He decided "to break away from kurai ongaku [dark music]," wrote Tokyo Boogie-Woogie. It hit, and boogie began to beat all over Japan...
Born. To Princess Shigeko (called Teru no Miya: Shining Highness) Higashi-Kuni, 23, eldest of Emperor Hirohito's six children, and Prince Morihiro Higashi-Kuni, 33, eldest son of Japan's surrender Premier, Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni: their third child, second son (Hirohito's third grandchild); in the imperial household's private hospital, Tokyo. Weight: 7 lbs. 13.7 oz. Name: undisclosed...