Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ichthyophagous Japan, good fishing techniques are a matter of national importance. So the Japanese Government asked Dr. Tadayoshi Sasaki, of Tokyo's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, to work out a commercial way of using light to catch more fish. Last week Dr. Sasaki described a fiendishly clever system of luring fish to their doom...
...Navy's Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, ret. (famous for his wartime broadcasts to Japan), who likes to make people's flesh creep, last week did it again. He reminded the U.S. that its top military men were anything but complacent over "absolute weapons."* In the United Nations World, Zacharias wrote of new non-atomic weapons "that could wipe out the last vestige of human, animal and vegetable life." And then he added: "They are not an American monopoly. Several nations are known to have them, to be making them, and to be improving them. Furthermore, unlike...
...Colonel lunched with Prime Minister Tetsu Katayama and his Cabinet, and received a lapel pin-a silver chrysanthemum. He made Japanese front pages by saying (as Japanese jingoes had said before) that Japan was overpopulated, and that Australia was just the place to relieve the "pressure...
...Tokyo for home, he took a walk with Emperor Hirohito amid the 700-year-old dwarf trees in his garden. Reported the Colonel, whose occasional sarcasm and constant, majestic deadpan sometimes pass muster for a sense of humor: "The Emperor said he hoped in the future the relations between Japan and the U.S. would be as warm as they have been in the past...
...days of the railroad builders, U.S. readers got St. Elmo and Under Two Flags. When the clipper ships were sailing to China, one of the popular novels was The Scarlet Letter. When the wagon trains were going over South Pass, it was Swiss Family Robinson. The year before Japan fell, it was Forever Amber...