Word: showa
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Girls' Day, or Hina Matsuri, is March 3, while Boys' Day is celebrated on May 5, explained Faith N. Barcus, director of student life at the Showa Institute...
Students from the Boston-based Showa Institute and the Bunsai Gakuen--which are dedicated to the study of American language and culture, placed their culture's unique food and crafts on exhibit before curious library patrons throughout the week...
...Prize was created in 1985 to commemorate the 60-year reign of Emperor Showa and his longtime research interests in biology...
Japan, once the world's enemy, now its envy. A ruler once a god, in fact a slight, shy man fond of jellyfish but devoted to imperial duty. The interment of Emperor Showa, called Hirohito in his lifetime, bringing together admirers of Japan's modern ascent with the rites of a hallowed but controversial past. The burial too of an era that will lay to rest a history of barbaric militarism and shattering defeat, freeing Japan to move into a new age of unapologetic economic supremacy. All in all, it was as haunting and impressive a funeral as the century...
...tranquillity. As Japan's national television network flashed the words TENNO- HEIKA HOGYO (the Emperor passes away) last Saturday, some of the country's 122 million citizens wept, some prayed, some affected disinterest. All realized that an era of great change for their country, a period immortalized as the Showa era, or time of enlightened peace...