Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory made a major change in the political and strategic world picture on the western shore of the Pacific. From Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin Communism was now the major force. The western world merely held sentinel positions in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Indo-China, Malaya and Burma -all three in turmoil-lay beneath the Communist threat...
...small, shabby auditorium of Tokyo's Scholars' Building, 210 of Japan's best scientists relaxed last week with tall bottles of beer and box lunches of rice balls, cold fish and pickles. Like most Japanese, they wore cracked shoes and frayed trousers, but they had good reason to feel proud of themselves. This was Japan's brand-new Science Council, democratically elected by 33,000 of Japan's recognized scientists...
...report on Japan, Reischauer stated "democracy will either win in Japan, or American foreign policy throughout Asia will have the props knocked out from under it." Although the occupation has been relatively successful thus far, Reischauer claimed that the time has come for a reevaluation of our policy...
Some have, as in Italy, Germany, and Japan. Today, people in those countries are paying the price...
Edwin A. Ackerman, assistant professor here last year, spend last fall in Japan, where he aided the Army in setting up national resources planning board in the occupied country...