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Japan last week became the first country in Asia to have regular television programs. To celebrate the beginning of Terebi Jidai (the Television Era), thousands of Japanese crowded into Tokyo's public halls, schools and dealers' shops to watch on TV screens a succession of congratulatory speeches by Japanese officials and U.S. Ambassador Robert Murphy ("This reflects the progressive spirit of the new Japan"). The speeches were followed by films of Eisenhower's inaugural, a ballet and the playing of a Kabuki drama called A Scene from Yoshinoyama...
...Sinkurea Jidai...
...with New York intellectuals, it appears, but they have changed the mentality of a whole new generation of the students of China, Japan, India and Russia. Has any of your collectors of gossip told you that the present literary period in Japan is known as Sinkurea Jidai which means "the Sinclair...