Word: kanji
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the Prime Minister's latest disclosures, opposition members intensified their demands that he step down. "Your hands are dirty," charged Socialist Diet member Kanji Kawasaki. Takeshita, 65, refused to do so, vowing instead to reform the system. To his critics, Takeshita declared, "I have no intention of taking a quick way out of this crisis...
...House; Timothy C. Chang, Applied Mathematics, Lowell House; David, H. Chin, Chemistry, Quincy House; Michael S. Dettelbach, History and Science, Quincy House; Philip R. Dormitzer, Anthropology, Dunster House; Glenn D. Ellison, Mathematics, Currier House; Stephen A. Engel, Computer Science, Eliot House; Jesse M. Fried, Economics, Winthrop House; Riyaz A. Kanji, Social Studies, Quincy House; Richard D. Katz, Applied Mathematics, Leverell House; Nicholas R. Lawrence, English and American Language and Literature, North House; Mark Lee, Physics, Winthrop House; Daniel E. Lieberman, Anthropology, Currier House; Neil B. Morganbesser, Applied Mathematics, Lowell House; Thomas B. Mucller, History and Literature, North-House; Andrew...
...regular departments were five new sections: History, Culture, Psychology, Language and Travel, the latter written especially for TIME by William Least Heat Moon, author of the bestselling U.S. travelogue Blue Highways. A New York City printing firm provided the characters symbolizing each of TIME'S sections (the kanji above: Japan...
...same time that it has been fighting vigorously for market share, IBM has been forming cooperative agreements with the Japanese. In one, IBM and Matsushita Electric Industrial teamed up to produce a personal computer that converts Japanese phonetic symbols into Chinese characters or Kanji. Typewriters have not been widely used in Japan, partly because, with so many different characters, a typical machine must be packed with about 3,000 Kanji. The new machine, which ranges in price from $4,100 to $12,700, has a keyboard of only 45 phonetic symbols plus the Latin alphabet. More than...