Word: meiji
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plight of Japan's 3,000,000 eta (literally: "very dirty") untouchables. The eta class, also known as hinin (not human), includes most of the Japanese nation's leatherworkers, shoemakers, butchers and slaughterhouse workers. Though the etas were formally abolished as a caste in 1871 under the Meiji Restoration and the word itself was removed from dictionaries, the prejudices that surrounded them survived almost unabated from the days when they were forbidden to pray at village shrines, go outdoors between sundown and sunrise, or marry outside their class...
...middle-aged Japanese couple, who clearly remember the days before Pearl Harbor, their young son's reaction to the historical film Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War was incredible. "Who were all those people?" asked the boy when he got home. "Who was General Nogi? I never heard of him." Fifteen years ago, every pupil would have known about the Japanese commander at Port Arthur. but to the present generation, such national heroes as Nogi might never have existed...
...ones have sprung up. But what might have been an unmixed blessing has brought with it a curse. Last year 5,664 students were arrested for major crimes; of these, one in five came from a university. A sampling of what has been going on: ¶ In December, a Meiji University student stabbed and killed a taxi driver to get money to buy a few drinks. ¶ In February, four more Meiji students beat and robbed another driver...
...field went to John A. Simourian '57; the Wister Prize to Robert S. Freeman '57 as the senior concentrator with the highest scholastic record in the Music Department; and the Eric Firth Prize to Tatsuo Arima '57 for a thesis entitled, "Uchimura Kanzo: A Case Study of the post-Meiji Japanese Intelligentsia...
...determination to marry whom they wish, many Japanese parents tend to bow to the inevitable, masking their parental pride behind a face-saving ritual in which the already-well-acquainted couple are formally introduced to each other. Many an urban bridegroom has a new respect for his prize. At Meiji Hall last week, one busy girl marriage clerk noted with satisfaction that nine out of every ten grooms let their brides step into the marriage limousine before them...