Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room in suburban Tokyo looked like any big classroom; on a dais at one end stood a desk and chair, behind them a blackboard. Some 250 people had checked their shoes at the door and filled the benches. Most of them were young; many wore the black, brass-buttoned uniform of the Japanese university student. Tadao Yanaihara, president of Tokyo University, entered, and the audience rose and bowed. They sang a hymn. Then Yanaihara sat down at the desk and lectured on the Bible for two hours and five minutes...
Ecclesiastics Are Politicians. Founder Uchimura, born to a samurai family in 1861, was introduced to Christianity at twelve, when a Tokyo schoolmate invited him "to a certain place in the foreigners' quarter, where we can hear pretty women sing and a tall, big man with a long beard shout and howl upon an elevated place, flinging his arms and twisting his body in all fantastic manners, to all of which admittance is entirely free." Later, at an American-founded agricultural school...
Shivering spectators applauded, the police band whanged away for all it was worth. Any kind of action helped cut the chill of Tokyo's clammy, cavernous Metropolitan Gymnasium. Then the contestants, some 150 table-tennis players from 16 different countries, marched in, a radiant blaze of uniforms under the bright lights. Any color except white was allowed at the 23rd World Championship
...Waves. Radioactive dust tells nothing about the power of the shot, but Japanese bomb watchers have another trick that gives a fair indication. They measure the power of the atmospheric wave set in motion by the explosion. The wave from the U.S. blast at Bikini (2,485 miles from Tokyo) rated .4 millibars in Japan, while the Soviet explosion (1,802 miles from Tokyo) rated only .15 millibars. These figures cannot be taken as directly proportional to the power of the explosions (shock waves can act odd), but observers in Japan estimate the biggest U.S. bang at 12 megatons, believe...
Died. Tsunego Baba, 80, longtime champion of a free Japanese press as president (1945-51) of the nation's third largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 2,133,000), of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo...