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JAPAN (PBS, debuting April 4, 9 p.m. EST on most stations). From shogun days to postwar boom, a four-week look at the country's history and culture...
...good mid-winter game" Butcher and Monson name their dog pups, she says. Often they name the dogs according to themes: Cracker's pups are called Ritz and Graham, and Gingerbread's pups have spice names. "Then we'll do books--shogun..." Butcher muses...
...honor of the first night of the 1987 Eastern Championships, each wore a Japanese headband and marched in to battle uttering a shogun war chant...
...Core courses debuted on the list. Literature and Arts B-33, "Buildings and Cities: An Introduction to Western Architecture and Urbanism," and Foreign Cultures 42, "Building the Shogun's Realm: The Unification of Japan 1560-1650," made their first apperances in the Course Catalog and in the top 10 list...
...China, during the Ch'ing dynasty, the Emperors' Pekingese were suckled by wet nurses, raised by eunuchs and given royal rank. Tsunayoshi, the "Dog Shogun" of 17th century Japan, distorted his nation's economy to pamper his 100,000 canines. Ovid and Catullus wrote poems to commemorate the deaths of their mistresses' birds, and trendy Romans kept pet turbot. Today a dog's vita can be just as dolce. Three years ago, Lady Beaverbrook booked all the seats in the business section of a jumbo jet so that she and her pooch could travel in solitary comfort...