Word: samurais
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party with my fraternity this weekend," he wrote recently. "It was our Samurai party. Hey wait, I can spell check now. Cool, I don't have to be paranoid about my spelling and I can type real fast and let it catch all my mistakes. Sweet. Back to Samurai, it was quite a blast. We filled a huge hole in the back yard with imported beers and all dressed up like Japanese things. I was a karaoke machine. It was one of the best costumes. I carried a tape of myself playing the music to the Pet Song I wrote...
...begin with, Japan's special sort of samurai work ethic will be under assault. Coming generations of young "salarymen" will be less willing to work such grueling hours. They will want more leisure time, larger apartments, shorter commutes. Japanese men and women alike, no longer content to be poor people in a rich country, as they describe themselves, will demand a larger share of the national wealth they create. The resulting higher consumption at home will inevitably mean more imports and a reduction in Japan's trade surpluses...
Perhaps the best illustration of this can be found in the best-selling novel about six days in the life of an English butler, The Remains of the Day. The book reads almost like a handbook of traditional Japanese values: a samurai- like loyalty to a master, a quiet and impenitent nationalism, a sense that self is best realized through self-surrender. Many of the scenes -- in which the butler speaks to his father in the third person, talks of "military-style pep talks" to his staff and resolves to practice "bantering" -- might almost be translated from the Japanese...
...Allies? Was victory hollow then? Given the atrocities, is justice being confounded now? Those familiar questions were posed anew but not answered in SHIMADA, an Australian hit that arrived on Broadway last week with a starry cast (Ben Gazzara, Ellen Burstyn, Estelle Parsons and Mako) and a gongs-and-samurai dreamscape production. The plot hinged on hints that a Japanese tycoon who bids on a clapped-out bicycle factory may also be the stockade guard who tortured its founder (as recalled in gruesome flashback). But that identity was never settled. The larger debate was too relentlessly evenhanded to change minds...
...Matsushita), Japanese cars and computer chips are shown converging on a map of the U.S. Winged dollars at the top of the screen fly back toward Japan. Who wins? Flying hot dogs indicate an American victory; sushi signals a Japanese triumph. Then there are cowboys who shoot at samurai warriors. The brochure describes Japan Bashing with some understatement as "a game of reality and tension...