Word: tempura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more Japanese than the Japanese themselves. They claimed that Provoo often said he hoped the Japanese would win the war and that he called Emperor Hirohito "the essence of divinity." Corporal Robert Brown testified that Provoo hit him in the face because he did not know how to cook tempura (Japanese fried fish or shrimps) and declared that "all American women on Corregidor should be turned over to the Japanese for immoral purposes." Once, said Brown, he followed Provoo to the top of a hill where Provoo, clad in a shroud, "let out those wild Buddhist chants...