Word: yasumaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese, the Golden Hall with its Buddhas has been as important a national shrine as Mount Vernon to Americans. In Tokyo the Minister of Education, Yasumaro Shimojo, was so distressed (even though the hall itself could be restored) that he offered to resign. In Cambridge, Mass., where last week Fogg Museum officials hung twelve full-scale photographs of the murals to show the public what had been destroyed, Oriental art experts glumly compared the artistic loss to what the Western art world would lose in a fire in the Sistine Chapel...
...last week Professor Yasumaro Shimojo walked into a large, dirty classroom at Nippon University in Tokyo. Grey old Shimojo had just been named Education Minister in Premier Shigeru Yoshida's precarious new cabinet...
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