Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of saying "Good morning," Japanese businessmen in Osaka traditionally say "Moh-kari-makka?" (Are you making any money?) Only a year ago, the answer was a doleful no. The cutback in U.S. procurement following the Korean peace had demoralized dollar-happy industrialists and spotted Japanese headlines with the word fukeiki (depression). But last week the same businessmen, answering the traditional question, beamed a confident yes. ¶ Industrial production was up 13% over 1954, some 85% above...
Converted. Everywhere the reception was enthusiastic-even from people who had never heard live Western music, e.g., the Okinawans, who kept moving their heads to see where each new sound was coming from. In one community, between Kobe and Osaka, Conductor Walter Hendl, 38, stepping outside between numbers for a breath of air, discovered hundreds of Japanese who had been unable to get in standing with their ears pressed to the wall...
...factory worker's home in Osaka or the farmer's on Kyushu will be smaller and meaner, but it too will have half a dozen or more prints to be hung, one at a time, and contemplated according to the seasons. Each object, each gesture gives off a melancholy beauty inimitably Japanese. All is so precisely arranged that a wisp of dried fern or a few swirls of gravel in a garden may seem more overpowering than an Alpine view; a slightly disarranged bamboo blind can suggest chaos...
...busy, windswept days last week, Japan's Premier toured Osaka and Kobe, the Pittsburgh of Japan, in a brisk, U.S.-style election campaign. He made a big hit. A caretaker Premier for only ten weeks, savvy Old Politician Hatoyama was determined to win a longer lease on the job. He did not hesitate to promise the moon, or to strum the samisen strings of renascent Japanese nationalism...
...thousands where other politicians did well with a few hundred. When he went from city to city by car, workers poured to the curbs and farmers leaned on tools along the fields to cheer. "I do not care about any political speeches," explained an elbow-churning man in Osaka, "I just want to see the face...