Word: oshima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oshima's Bisonburger
...billboards. They are horrified at the amount of food piled on their plates and at the haste with which Americans eat, but usually leave ecstatic over American salads and agreeably surprised by California wines. Meat, particularly "steaks big as blankets," impresses visitors, but when Japan's Dr. Chozo Oshima sampled a bisonburger, he had to pronounce it "not for the Japanese palate." Since television in most of the world is government-owned and often without advertising, tourists are fascinated by American television, particularly the commercials, which left Swedish Visitors Inga and Rune Svensson with the impression that "Americans live...
Aboard the Japanese freighter Oshima Maru, which left Yokohama last week, were two stone garden lanterns on their way to Hyannisport, Mass. The lanterns -one a three-ton, nine-foot model called kasuga, the other a one-ton, four-footer called yukimi ("snow-viewing" lantern)-are a present for President Kennedy from Professor Gunji Honoso, silver-haired international law expert at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University, who got to know the President back in the days when Kennedy was a junketing Senator. Cost of both lanterns...