Word: nipponization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near collision involved 308 "S.O.B.s," official parlance for souls on board, and had the two planes crashed it would have been the worst air collision ever. In 1971 a Japanese military plane struck an All Nippon Boeing 727 over Honshu, killing 162 people...
Quality varies widely. One of the best-regarded juku, Tokyo's Nippon Shingaku Kyoshitsu (Japanese Entrance Examination School), is so popular that children commute to its Sunday sessions from distant areas by jet plane and bullet train. Some 2,600 pupils -all sixth-graders propping for the junior high entrance exam-attend the school. A typical class starts at 8:30 a.m. and continues for 50 minutes with the teacher asking questions and 100 pupils chanting back the answers. ("When did the Russo-Japanese war break out?" "When was the League of Nations formed?") Recently, a visitor asked...
...Adriana Maliponte, Luciano Pavarotti, Franco Corelli and John Alexander, and three of the most popular works in its repertory: Puccini's La Bohème, Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's La Traviata. The stand began with Traviata at Tokyo's 4,000-seat NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Hall. With Soprano Sutherland dying rapturously as Violetta and Tenor Alexander showing a cad's remorse as Alfredo, it was one of the brightest in a long line of grand Met opening nights...
...When she put the idea to General Manager Schuyler Chapin two years ago, he replied: "Go away and don't bother me. That will cost millions." It did cost that, $2.5 million to be precise, but Hillyer found someone to pick up the tab: the Nagoya-based Chubu Nippon Broadcasting Co., which decided to sponsor the tour in honor of its 25th anniversary...
Normal newborn infants need reassurance too. Reasoning that newborn babies cry, at least in part, because they miss the sound of their mother's heartbeat, Dr. Hajime Murooka of Tokyo's Nippon Medical College inserted a minuscule microphone into the wombs of three expectant mothers and taped their heartbeats. When the taped heartbeat was played back to 300 crying babies (20 of them preemies), 85% either went to sleep at once or stopped crying in a minute. The word spread quickly throughout Japan, and heartbeat cassettes and records are selling at a brisk rate. But Murooka warns that...