Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later in the discussion, the Emperor expressed a hope that the occupation would continue for a while. "You know," added Hirohito, "democracy is not a new idea in Japan. There are many references to it in the old books and in village practices...
Baldwin became convinced that whatever democratic traditions the Japanese have are of a highly communal type. Japan is "one great big committee." Its people have group rights rather than individual ones...
Crusaders. "Japan," rhapsodized Baldwin, "is an uplifting experience. It is a crusade." General MacArthur feels that he has an almost mystical duty to "purge the soul of the Japanese people. The Japanese are learning to stand up on their hind legs to authority." As avid to ape Western political and social forms as they once were to imitate Western industrial techniques, the Japanese are trying everything from open forum debating to the Virginia reel...
...priests found Christianity making great headway in Japan, largely because of G.I.-Japanese postwar friendliness, plus General MacArthur's Christianization campaign ("You can't have democracy without Christianity"). Only in China did they find hostility to the U.S. in general. This, they felt, was not so much the result of Communist activity as the natural resentment of the Chinese at being dependent...
Bushido, 1947. In Tsurumi, Japan, the Independent Union of the Morinaga Foodstuffs Industrial Co. decided to allow Western-style dances, provided that: 1) unmarried girls get permission from their mothers; 2) newly married men get permission from, their wives...