Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Osaka and Kobe to Tokyo, up & down the Ginza (Tokyo's Broadway) and through the Shinjuku (Tokyo's Montmartre), half-educated trumpets got in their licks, and demi-lingual cries, Tokyo boogie-woogie, rhythm uki-uki, Kokoro zuki-zuki, waku-waku, jarred the night. Pickup bands were a yen a dozen, and most Japanese seemed to have the yen. They liked it blue, hot, and syrup-sweet, and called it all jazzu...
...dance, and, until his death in 1933 at the age of 83, Japan's most vigorous and imaginative publisher. In the 52 years that lean, white-bearded Murayama ran Asahi, he built it up from a struggling lo?al sheet to a national institution with editions in Osaka, Tokyo and Kokura...
...first publisher to use rotary presses in Japan, the first to install a newspaper-clipping morgue, the first to run a picture supplement. In 1923, Asahi inaugurated Japan's first regular airmail service-with its own fleet of planes-to link the Osaka and Tokyo editions...
Throwing around the name of Nozaka's good friend Mao Tse-tung has been even more effective. With Japan's recovery vitally dependent on China trade, certain businessmen have seen fit to invite Red leaders to Tokyo's swank Industry Club. Osaka manufacturers have formed a Marxist study group and are contributing to party coffers. Out in public, Communist orators shout that China shows Asia's "wave of the future." Party organ Akahata, riding the wave, claims that China trade would gain Japan commercial independence (from the U.S.) and would help overthrow the Yoshida government...
Congratulations on your article on Japan [TIME, May 9]. It presents a vivid and wellbalanced picture of conditions as I observed them on a recent educational mission, which included Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Kobe and Yokohama. I heartily concur in the praise of General MacArthur's leadership...