Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merge the Red army with Chiang's forces. To the rank & file, Communist leaders explained carefully that these were "temporary" measures to give the Communist forces a chance to recover from their "battle fatigue." Very clearly, Mao spelled out Communist strategy: "The war between China and Japan is an excellent opportunity for the development of our party. Our determined policy is 70% self-development, 20% compromise, and 10% fight the Japanese...
...only extant photographs of the ancient mural paintings in the Golden Hall of the Horyuji Monastery in Japan went on display in Fogg Museum yesterday morning. Fire, which swept the monastery last Wednesday, destroyed virtually the entire collection of original murals...
Horyuji was the oldest wooden building still standing in the world. It had been used by the Buddhist church from the time of its construction until the fire last week. During the seventh and eighth centuries, it was the court monastery of Japan and benefited from the direct patronage of the emperors...
...Science Council was not organized nor even blueprinted by the U.S. occupation. It is an outgrowth of the dissatisfaction which Japanese scientists have felt toward the stiffly hierarchical science bodies inherited from imperial Japan. In the early days of the occupation, Japanese scientists, hungry for outside news and without faith in themselves, came timidly to the American authorities to ask advice. They got the minimum. "Form a liaison group," said SCAP's scientific division, "so we can talk intelligently...
...brief speeches the scientists promised not to repeat the "retreat from reason" that was forced upon them during Japan's militarist regime. They pledged themselves to work for world peace. Then they split into committees and got down to their main business of advising the government on Japan's scientific problems. Their charter makes them only an advisory group, but they feel that they have the prestige to give their advice authority. Besides, they have the conviction that they, the scientists of defeated Japan, are pioneering for the entire world...