Word: jujitsu
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...Hara. But because Taro's father is now Minister of Propaganda, the two men are not allowed to fight. Instead they choose deputies to fight for them. O'Hara's lean boxer is Lefty (Robert Ryan). Taro's fighter is a King Konglike jujitsu expert (Mike Mazurki). Their boxer-wrestler battle symbolizes the U.S.-Jap war. It is as savage as anything in the history of screen roughhouse. But as symbol, the result is rather ominous. Ryan finally punches the Jap to the floor, is last seen dying from the effects of indescribable Japanese torture. Taro...
British and Indian troops were in slow, steady retreat last week before the jujitsu jabs of the Japs, who infiltrated their positions and threatened to cut their thin communication line. The British would probably be lucky if they could withdraw intact to India before the imminent season of monsoon, malaria...
...replace drafted guards, Hudson Motor Car Co. began hiring big girls(5 ft. 10 and over), training them in pistol shooting and jujitsu, swore them in as auxiliary military police...
...Hard. Hand-to-hand is not only rough & tumble but it defies the basic principle of sport: obey the rules. A combination of dirty boxing, dirty wrestling and dirty jujitsu, it teaches a fighter how to whip the other fellow, rules or no. If a cadet plays too fair, is ready to shake hands or even admits that his opponent is better, he may "bilge" (flunk) the course...
...used to keep awake for his midnight studies by putting mosquitoes up his sleeve. No recent book has probed the Japanese mind so deeply as the 20 pages of The Japanese Smile by Lafcadio Hearn, who became a Japanese subject, spent the rest of his life repudiating western civilization. Jujitsu. Yet "that mind," says Expert Kiralfy, "is our real enemy. Without it Emperor Hirohito's armies are just so many mobs, his naval squadrons just so many tons of steel." It is the jujitsu mind, he says-not especially resourceful or daring, but adept at feeling out the weaknesses...