Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Satano's judges might well have sighed with him. Since the U.S. first began conducting war crimes trials in Japan late in 1945, 124 Japanese had been sentenced to hang, 62 to life imprisonment and some 650 to prison terms ranging from a few months to 50 years. More than 150 others were acquitted or dismissed. With the case of Osamu Satano, U.S. prosecutors closed their books. There would be no more war crimes trials in Japan...
...only a plodder of average talents and plain common sense," the missionary once said of himself. "If I have been remarkable for anything, it has been for perseverance." Last week in Yokohama, a monument was raised to the remarkable plodder who was one of the first to introduce Japan to Western and Christian ideas...
Chief Abbot Kocho Otani, who represents 32 million Japanese Buddhists, and his wife, younger sister of the Empress of Japan, visited Harvard and Radcliffe colleges yesterday during a tour of the United States sanctioned by General Douglas MacArthur, supreme Allied commander of Japan...
Abbot Otani is chief of the East Hog Won-Jt Buddhist Sector of Japan, which embraces six million members...
Point Four & Plan. The combine was first organized 2½ years ago at the suggestion of the U.S. Government to conduct a survey of Japan. Named as president was Clifford S. Strike, 46, president of Manhattan's F. H. McGraw & Co., which built, among other World War II projects, the $36 million Bermuda air base. Last week in a green-carpeted office on Manhattan's East 42nd Street, O.C.I. President Strike and Board Chairman