Word: nippon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo's oldest and biggest English-language daily, World War II officially ended last week. In 1942, the Japan Times was ordered by Tojo's bullyboys to change its title, substitute Nippon-the name by which Japanese know their country-for its Western-style Japan. Last week, after 14 years as the Nippon Times, the paper took its old name back to signify a "rededication to the high principles and purposes of the free press...
Changing Muscles. Ballet first touched Japan in the '20s, made its mark with a tour by the late, swanlike Anna Pavlova, but Nippon stayed off its toes until after World War II. In 1946 the occupation forces blessed a performance of Swan Lake-all four acts of it-staged by a pickup Japanese troupe. It was headed by a tigerish young dancer named Masahide Komaki, who had studied ballet with Russian refugees. The production had a grand total of only 22 dancers (v. 64 for Sadler's Wells' Swan Lake today). Optimistically booked for one week...
Last week the board accepted Rosen-stock's resignation-he complained of too much nonmusical work, e.g., bookings and business negotiations. He will return to Tokyo, to conduct the Nippon Broadcasting Symphony, of which he was musical director before and after World...
When the god Kamo Myojin descended to earth on the island of Nippon some 3,000 years ago, he brought prostitutes with him and installed them in a shrine. There and in neat, cherry-blossomed houses, they flourished as honored licensed entertainers, even after 1946, when Douglas MacArthur ordered the Japanese government to curtail the business...
Japan has recovered even faster because its shipyards came through the war virtually unscathed. They have since produced more than 1,500,000 tons of new bottoms, and made $80 million building 300,000 tons for export. But shipbuilding in Nippon is precarious business: shipping firms, which took heavy losses during the war, must rely on bank loans, which are costly (up to 11% a year); prices are 15 to 20% higher than international levels, and Japan's early advantage of quick delivery no longer applies. Export orders fell from $70 million in 1951 to $10 million last year...