Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traitor was a bespectacled, wiry, 27-year-old Nisei named Tomoya Kawakita, better known to hundreds of G.I. prisoners as "The Meatball." The son of a California grocer, Kawakita was caught on a visit to Japan by World War II. He threw in his lot with the Japanese. As an interpreter in the prison camp at Oeyama, he taunted G.I. prisoners in their own ball-park English, took savage delight in tormenting them...
...much political responsibility had three years of U.S. occupation brought to Japan? Not enough to keep Tokyo's Kosuge prison from bulging last week with financiers and high government officials involved in the Showa Denko bribery case...
...Showa Denko Co., cause of Ashida's downfall, is Japan's biggest postwar producer of chemical fertilizer. It received nearly 3 billion yen in loans from the Japanese Reconstruction Finance Bank-two-thirds of the total allocation for fertilizer industry loans. In return, Showa Denko spent at least 200 million yen in bribes to government officials, politicians and financiers, and for illegal expenses...
...Pound of Cure. In Nagoya, Japan, Masaja Ryuno, president of the Nishi-Tsukiji Crime Prevention Society, was being questioned by local police on suspicion of embezzling 31,900 yen of the society's funds...
...from the age of 19, is grey and tense when the book opens because he has lost a ship. The Running of the Tide is the story of his triumphant vindication in command of another ship (the fastest in the world) on a three-year voyage to Batavia and Japan, salting away more than $100,000 a year...