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...Japan too, where the influence of American entertainment is pervasive, $ the misgivings are growing. "Younger people are forgetting their native culture in favor of adopting American culture," says Hisao Kanaseki, professor of American literature at Tokyo's Komazawa University. "They're not going to see No theater or Kabuki theater. They're only interested in American civilization. Young people here have stopped reading their own literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Leisure Empire | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...feuding students from Rikkyo and Nippon Universities started a riot in a beer hall. Result: one student dead. ¶ In June, three students from Komazawa, Japan's foremost Buddhist university, were arrested for assault and attempted rape after breaking into a public bathhouse and attacking two bathhouse maids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learned Criminals | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...shooting at a target while treading water. Later he applauded enthusiastically a group of expert swimmers who donned ancient Samurai suits of metal armor and thus clad swam an exciting race. As everyone knows, the Prince of Wales and Prince Regent Hirohito played a game of golf on the Komazawa links (1923) in which Edward won by a point-a fact patriotically concealed at the time by the Japanese press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Stalwart Princes | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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