Word: kimigayo
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...bunch of bananas in the other, in case the champion needed a postcompetition potassium boost, Naoya's mother confided: "Back in 1976, I had this dream that Japan would win gold, and they did. Then, just before we left for Athens, I had another dream, where I heard the Kimigayo [the Japanese national anthem]. So I knew that we would taste success again...
...offensive military capability, and to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, a contentious memorial for dead war veterans (including World War II war criminals), have elicited outcries abroad but little to none at home. Two years ago the Diet restored the World War II-era Hinomaru flag and Emperor-worshiping Kimigayo anthem as official standard-bearers for the nation. A film like Pearl Harbor, says the Prime Minister's spokesman, Kazuhiko Koshikawa, is "quite fictitious and one-sided. Japan is portrayed as the enemy, and wrong. The U.S. is portrayed as right...
...giant (25-ft.) drum, which rouses them from sleep in their dormitory bunk beds; each room has eight workers from different companies. They don their all-white clothes, usually sweat shirts and sweatpants, grab brooms, and clean their quarters. They then line up for a flag raising, singing Kimigayo, the national anthem...
...early fall breeze swept over Peking airport, lifting the first Rising Sun flag to fly there since 1945. As Japan's Premier Kakuei Tanaka stepped out of his DC-8, a Chinese band struck up the solemn Japanese anthem Kimigayo (The Reign of Our Emperor), then switched to the Communist Chinese anthem March of the Volunteers, the staccato marching song that Mao Tse-tung's Red Army sang during its wars with Emperor Hirohito's plundering troops in the 1930s and '40s. It was a moving beginning to a historic meeting that would end a century...
...tide of defeat had turned and was now a thunderous southward surge of victory. The Emperor had even deigned to show himself, astride his white horse, to receive the banzais of his subjects. In the parks of Tokyo, the people thrilled to brass bands blaring the fervent strains of Kimigayo...