Word: nippon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secondhand bookshop. Kotsuji entered a Christian mission school, studied Hebrew, became a Presbyterian; he later studied philology at the University of California, earned a doctorate at Kyoto University. Acknowledged as Japan's top Hebraist. Kotsuji wrote a Hebrew grammar, tutored scholarly Prince Mikasa, youngest brother of Nippon's Emperor Hirohito...
...Japan today, there are exactly six color TV receivers in the hands of private owners. But at 60 railroad stations and other public places within transmitting distance of Tokyo last week, hundreds of thousands of Japanese enthusiastically gathered before sets supplied by the Nippon Television Network and watched two hours of daily color programs...
Emoto took his bride aboard an All Nippon Airways DC-3, put her in a front seat, himself took a seat beside the plane door. The stewardess noted that he watched carefully how she bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time...
...sponsor's patent medicines. In another samurai episode, the hero vanquished a batch of evildoers, then warily approached a wayside shrine whence came a mysterious breeze; he jerked the shrine door open to discover an air-conditioning unit and a pretty girl, who intoned: "It's Nippon Electric's latest model...
...also confronted by rising Japanese imports that took over a big piece of the U.S. market in 1957. came a refreshing tactic last week. Instead of protesting to the Tariff Commission. Gladding, McBean & Co. (annual sales: $35 million) made a deal with two of Japan's biggest producers-Nippon Toki and Toyo Toki-to become sole U.S. distributors of their products. Gladding. McBean will market the Japanese dishes at prices slightly below its own products...