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Professor Saichi Sato, who wrote one, was a GHQ interpreter in the occupation's early days, and briefly published a Japanese imitation of TIME. Some definitions in Sato's go-page, pocket-size Dictionary of Current Americanism, New Words...
Slangs: acorn-to experience adversity; allot upon-to intend; agazed-astonished; acceptress-a girl who says yes right away. One word (chic) Sato couldn't define but could use in a sentence: "You'll be a chic before you are heck to flying...
Some of the pictures, like Kei Sato's fierce tangle of men and bayonets entitled Deadly Struggle in the Jungle, were mere studio nightmares. Sato had pictured the U.S. enemy in World War I uniforms, with gas masks and doughboy helmets. He based his ideas of U.S. equipment on obsolete materiel the Japs captured in the Philippines...
Unlike Japan's prewar popular songs, which were languidly minor key and stickily sentimental, Song of the Apple was as sprightly as a hit from a U.S. college musical. It was written for Japan's first postwar movie, Soyokaze (Gentle Breeze), by Hachiro Sato and Tadashi Manjome, the Rodgers & Hammerstein of Japan's Tin Pan Alley. Lyricist Sato, a paunchy little Jap with a luxuriant ebony mustache, is Japan's Edgar Guest, turns out 50 homey verses a month for newspapers and radio. He wrote Song of the Apple before breakfast one morning in bed, after...
Last week Sato and Manjome were busy writing a new song. It was titled Lovely, Lovely Sweet...