Word: nihon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreigners who annually visit Hiroshima, and the more wealthy of the 2,000,000 Japanese visitors. In addition to tourists, Hiroshima lives by the brewing of beer and the building of ships-and, ironically, by the manufacture of howitzers by Japan's biggest gunmaker, Nihon Seiko, whose sales last year grossed $61 million and gave employment to more than 1,500 Hiroshima citizens...
Haniwa is an enigmatic art. The picturesque account given in the Nihon Shoki (chronicles of Japan compiled in the 8th century) credits Emperor Suinin (29 B.C.-A.D. 70) with substituting clay figures for the human retainers who customarily had been buried alive with their masters. Historians scuttled this colorful explanation by discovering that Haniwa figures were not made until centuries after inin's rule. Best bet is that the Haniwa figures, along with houses and boats, were meant to console the dead. Says Expert Fumio Miki: "We can only surmise from the data on hand that they were grave...
About 55 enthusiastic free enterprisers promptly applied for the ten licenses. They included a dozen newspapers, two chambers of commerce, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a brewery, two Christian groups, and an organization called the Buddhist Broadcasting Co. Co-existing with the new private stations is government-owned, non-commercial Nihon Hoso Kyokai (Japanese Broadcasting System), noted before the war for propaganda, folk songs (Naniwabushi) and horrendous singing programs for children. NHK is now dedicated to popular music, variety shows, quiz programs and drama...