Word: sendai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swords of Bamboo. But Japanese soldiers still practice kendo-the art of swordsmanship-even though no swords are permitted in military services. They use traditional bamboo staves. And a division recruited near Sendai has been lectured by its officers about its predecessor: the tough Imperial 2nd Division that killed 2,200 in the battle for Guadalcanal's Henderson Field. Fully 14% of the officer corps are veterans of the Pacific war, including Army Chief of Staff Yoshifusa Amano, 55, who served the Imperial army in China, Indochina and the Northern Pacific. "Fortunately, the climate toward the forces is getting...
There are three such viruses, distinguished by numbers.* Parainfluenza 1 was first called Sendai virus, after the Japanese city where it was originally isolated. It is close enough kin to the true flu viruses to have once been called influenza D. It has now been found around the world. At one time or another, nearly every child in the U.S. gets infected with paraflu 1, and the illness is most likely to be severe in the very young. The resulting antibody may last a lifetime, but gives only partial immunity: an adult can be reinfected with the same virus, though...
Archbishop Peter Tatsuo Doi, 67, was born at Sendai, Japan, was baptized a Christian at twelve, ordained at the age of 28, and appointed Archbishop of Tokyo 16 years later. The church has been losing ground in Japan for lack of Japanese priests and trained personnel, and the Vatican hopes that a Japanese cardinal will stimulate the faith in Japan as well as rally Roman Catholics elsewhere in Asia...