Word: sensei
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...banks then saw no future in leasing), he opened Orient Leasing Co. in Japan. The dry-witted Inui proved such an apt seito (pupil) that last year Orient became the biggest leasing company in the world, posting profits of $10.4 million, compared with $6.7 million earned by his old sensei (teacher), U.S.L...
...Ambassador's tenure in Tokyo, the Japanese press had lost some of its exhalted respect for the sensei (honored teacher). In more and more circles of the Japanese government, there was unflattering talk of the "two Reischauers" -- the diplomat who defended his government's Asian policy inflaggingly and the scholar who harbored serious doubts about "absurd" tragedies like the war in Vietnam...
...member of a distinguished Japanese family, speaks the language fluently and is one of the world's leading authorities on Japanese history. In scores of articles in Japanese publications and in close personal contacts with Japanese from virtually every walk of life, the ambassador-who was respectfully labeled sensei, honorable teacher-was a powerful influence in restoring the nation's self-confidence...
...into the abdominal muscle, proceeding "exactly as with several hundred appendectomies I have performed." The pain caused by his own finger probing into the wound made him feel faint, but Ohmura fished out the diseased appendix anyway, then "with sweat rolling down my face I gasped to Takahashi, 'Sensei [teacher], let's take a break...
Last week, as vacation time approached, Prince Mikasa decided to turn his last class into a tea party. "Have fun," he advised his students. "That's what vacations are for." But did the Denka intend to make a career of being a Sensei? Says Mikasa: "At first, I was so nervous and I spoke so fast that I had a tendency to stutter and mumble. But now I think I should make a pretty good professor...