Word: japan
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Evidence that the program has been extremely successful was given by a unique three day conference held recently by scholars and educators from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It was "the first international conference for the purpose of furthering education ever held in Eastern Asia," Reischauer said...
...name was not really Morimura. He was Takeo Yoshikawa, former ensign in the Japanese Imperial Navy, who had been sent to Honolulu in April 1941 on espionage duty. Now, 19 years after Pearl Harbor, writing in the authoritative United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Yoshikawa details his role as Japan's eyes and ears in the days before Pearl Harbor...
...into the neighborhood circuits in the hope that it will soon get profitably lost in the Christmas rush. The loss will be bearable: Seven is not a great picture-not nearly as good as the Japanese Magnificent Seven (TIME, Dec. 10, 1956), the brilliant episode of chivalry, directed by Japan's Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, from which it is adapted. Nevertheless, it is the best western released so far in 1960, a skillful, exciting, and occasionally profound contemplation of the life of violence...
Determined to overcome the reputation for arrogance that Kishi had earned for the Liberal-Democrats, Ikeda, 60, had adopted a conciliatory "low posture" before the voters. Between his ceremonial humility and his campaign reminders that his party had given booming Japan one of the world's highest rates of economic growth (an annual 9% increase in gross national product), Ikeda came through handsomely: his Liberal-Democrats won 296 out of the 467 seats in the lower house of Japan's Diet, an increase of 13 seats and the largest number won by a single Japanese party since World...
...left-wing Socialist foes also gained, increasing their Diet seats from 122 to 145. But all 23 of their new seats were taken from the middle-roading Democratic Socialists, who until they broke away a year ago had belonged to the Socialist Party anyway. Big losers were Japan's minor parties-though the Communists, who had a 1949 peak of 35 seats, increased their representation in the Diet from one to three members...