Word: kamakura
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...Koizumi. In 1977, the inner circle presented him with dozens of photos of potential spouses, which he stacked high on his parliamentary office desk. The one that caught his eye was of a kimono-clad beauty, a 21-year-old university student named Kayoko Miyamoto. Her family was from Kamakura, an upper-class town of bamboo-shaded temples and hydrangea gardens, not far from Yokosuka, in Koizumi's legislative district. Her grandfather had founded a large pharmaceutical company, and she grew up in a wealthy, though not ostentatious, environment. On their first date, Koizumi and Miyamoto dined at a French...
...market for U.S. products; he seems unable to see that country's true colors. I will say this to the Americans who want to stick their nose into our economic affairs: "You have not been asked to be a backseat driver; mind your own business." TSUTOMU NAKAMURA Kamakura, Japan...
...would qualify as a Japan expert, but all, aside from Tsongas, have visited the country. In fact Harkin lived in Japan for 18 months as a naval aviator during the 1960s, and Brown made pilgrimages both as Governor and, more recently, as an acolyte in a Zen retreat in Kamakura...
...January 1942 we moved to Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo. A teacher there asked my three-year-old son, "What will you do if the enemy attacks?" He replied, "I'll kick them." That's military education for you. They were teaching that a kamikaze ((divine wind)) would blow Japan to victory...
There are several works which make reference to Chinese literature. "On the Theme of Snow," by Muso Soseki, one of the most important figures in Japanese culture of the Kamakura period, is styled in semi-cursive, rhythmic Chinese script; this contrasts with the classical, fourth century style of Lan-chi Taolung's composition, which uses the elegant, slender stroked characters found in the work of the Chinese author Wang Hsi-chih...