Word: masao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese justification of the Pacific war as a logical outgrowth of the country's search for national identity. As the world's fifth-ranking industrial power and Asia's wealthiest nation, Japan feels a need to reassert itself in Asian affairs. Tokyo University Political Scientist Masao Maruyama suggests that the war in Viet Nam-which pits Asians against whites-tends to reinforce Japanese views that the Pacific war was justifiable as an "anti-colonial" and anti-white crusade...
...product in 1961 increased by 21.5%-6½ times the U.S. rate. Meanwhile, under the stimulus of a government-backed export drive, overseas sales had picked up enough to give Japan a favorable trade balance of $92 million for the first quarter of this year. Sighed Government Economic Planner Masao Sakizaka: "It seems the only people who realize that there's a serious recession going on are we economists...
...Masao Takenaka, 36, professor of Christian social ethics at Kyoto's Doshisha University, deplored the prevalence of what he called the four Ds of Christianity: "divided, dependent, derived and dated." Cried he: "I cannot conscientiously sell such Christianity to my dearest friends. Modern man is sick and tired of hearing propaganda. He is anxious to meet people who will participate in his struggle. I feel the presence of Christians in the secular world is very important." Dr. Takenaka brought up a problem that was raised again and again among the younger churches-that of making Christianity indigenous...