Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, as his U.S. colleagues were well aware, Scientist Yukawa was entitled to some congratulations himself. Ten years earlier, when he was a 28-year-old lecturer at Japan's Osaka University, Yukawa had taken the next step beyond the theory of nuclear fission with his brilliantly propounded theory of the meson. It had taken him more than a year simply to write out the mathematical formula through which he arrived at his conclusion: that a previously unknown type of particle was a clue to the force that held the nucleus of the atom together. Two years later...
...remained to be done before official U.S. attitudes toward the Japanese "indigenous population" reflected democratic ideals. G.I.s are still not allowed to entertain Japanese friends in U.S. billets. Osaka's big new hotel, which houses U.S. officers and civilians, has a special side entrance for Japanese. Washrooms in Tokyo office buildings taken over by the Occupation forces are still marked: Officers, Enlisted Men, Japanese...
...Osaka, which is Japan's No. 1 commercial city, grew naturally with the progressive expansionism of her hustling merchants. Nagoya, industrially the child of the Greater East Asia War, grew artificially, by military fiat. Fifty-five-year-old Junji Hattori, manager of a Mitsubishi plant in Nagoya, put it this way: "When the military sticks its nose into civilian affairs, it makes horrible mistakes. Look at us now-no money, no initiative, no incentive. I'm afraid Nagoya's flower has bloomed and withered. Whether new buds will appear, only time will tell...
...even though Nagoya's sleepy isolation and commercial torpor are worlds away from the energetic, expansionist drive of Osaka, the problems that the two cities have to face are largely the same. Japan must live on its exports. To export profitably, it must change its trade patterns, send heavy machinery where it once sent textiles, step up its export of bicycles, eventually export airplanes. Japanese managers and engineers must pull up their socks and streamline their subsidy-softened industries...
...Japanese who must put forth this supreme effort, however, have first to conquer their national schizophrenia, to achieve a union between the descendants of Hideyoshi and Ieyasu. Osaka and Nagoya must somehow be put together if Japan is to survive...