Word: nakae
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...legendary Emperor Jimmu, who founded the Japanese empire in 660 B.C. In five years the gross national product zoomed 62.5% to $25 billion annually, while industrial production jumped almost 100% to 219 on the 1934-36 index. But last week Japan had two somewhat more sober phrases to quote: naka-darumi, meaning pause, and oi-uchi, meaning a tightening. The pause in the boom had been brought about by the credit pinching of Finance Minister Hisato Ichimada to keep inflation from toppling the boom...
...Both naka-darumi and oi-uchi seemed to be exactly what the country needed. Japanese industry, which must import virtually all its raw materials, has been expanding faster than it could sell the manufactured goods on world markets, thus threw its vital balance of trade out of kilter to the detriment of its entire economy. Through the second quarter of 1957, imports poured in at the rate of $5.1 billion annually, 60% more than in 1956 and $2.4 billion more than the most optimistic estimate of exports. The drain on Japan's foreign-exchange reserves reduced them from...
...last week the death of Mrs. Naka Sakai had become an international incident. Japan demanded that Girard be tried for manslaughter in a civilian court (likely sentence: two to 15 years). The U.S., in the person of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, refused to release him from Army custody "pending a complete review of the matter...
...high-school faculties, still dubious about mixed classes, are trying to let students make their own decisions-even to chewing gum. One teacher, Tadao Naka-nami, caught a boy chewing gum and bawled him out. The student fired back: "In America the students chew gum." Stymied, the teacher put the issue up to class debate: Was it proper to chew gum in school even if Americans did so? The class long and earnestly debated the issue, then decided it was wrong, ordered the offending boy to apologize...
...Giretsu (unsurpassed loyalists) special attack airborne units, commanded by Captain Michio Okuyama, daringly landed amid the enemy in Kita and Naka airfields on the main Okinawa Island. . . . Upon landing they promptly blasted grounded enemy aircraft, munitions depots and airfield installations in rapid succession and are achieving great war results by throwing the enemy into confusion-Japanese Communiqu...