Word: samurai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hosts, to establish a program of summer visits to each other's country by Japanese and American boys. He is even prepared to apologize for the 1942 raid, and as a token of his regret, he is going to present the Brookings Jaycees with the 400-year-old samurai sword he carried strapped to the seat of his airplane during his raids...
...This is the finest possible way of closing the story," says Fujita. "It's in the finest of samurai traditions to pledge peace and friendship by submitting the sword to a former enemy...
...about reaching each appointed destination-seemed worried about the gas supply, the tires, and the road, and followed their progress constantly on a large map which he carried." About 7 o'clock two mornings after they arrived, "he took the final positive action of his life. Like a samurai who felt dishonored by the word or deed of another, Ernest felt his own body had betrayed him. Rather than allow it to betray him further, he, who had given what he once described as the gift of death to so many living creatures in his lifetime, loaded the weapon...
...home near Osaka, 26-year-old Seiji Hayakawa last week contemplated his existence and found it good. Mornings, Seiji and his young wife Kumiko wake to the bubbling of their automatic rice cooker, turned on minutes before by an electric timing device. Evenings they watch Laramie or the samurai dramas on their television set and right off the winter chill by toasting their feet on an electric footwarmer. So well paid are their jobs at the nearby Matsushita Electric Co. radio plant-as a foreman, Seiji makes $61.12 a month, plus a bonus of 6½ months' pay last...
...business career began in a Japan that was still shaking off the effects of two centuries of political, economic and international hibernation under the autocratic Tokugawa shoguns. To preserve their nation's independence, the new rulers of Japan-an uneasy coalition of military leaders descended from the old samurai and the great financial clans known as zaibatsu-concentrated on building Japan's industrial and military power at forced draft. The policy was in part highly successful-until World War II, Japan was the only Asian nation that had never been colonized or dominated by a Western power...