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Word: kikunami (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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...leaders-dignified, Christian, 59-year-old Komakichi Matsuoka, who has been called the "William Green of Japan" and hates Communists just as much. A more radical group promptly established the N.C.I.U. as a Japanese counterpart of the C.I.O., made a smart but little-known newspaperman named Katsumi Kikunami its chairman. Kikunami (who had a Nisei nephew killed in Italy fighting with the U.S. Army), though no Red himself, accepted Communist support. From this springboard of U.S. patterns, the Japanese jumped into the blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Labor's Love Lost | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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