Word: yokohama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II, when Japan was allied with Nazi Germany, Kotsuji feared persecution for his Semitic sympathies and fled to Manchuria; he returned later to teach at Kantogakuin, a private university in Yokohama. As he recalls it, he was in a spiritual quandary. ul had stopped practicing Christianity because I found the Trinity doctrine unreasonable. I abhorred Buddhism because it is a skeptical religion, without a central idea or purpose. I could not return to Shintoism's immaturity, its inadequate guide for living." Jewish friends introduced Kotsuji to leaders of the newly founded, Jerusalem-based World Union...
...tells what an Italian thinks an American would feel if he went ranching with a Japanese girl. Most of the time, this confusion is compounded by the staging. In the words of an old Far East hand, Cornelius V. Starr, Butterfly productions usually present "a kind of tourist Yokohama, or half New York Chinatown...
Among 977 passengers aboard the 11,828-ton troop transport General Anderson that sailed from Yokohama last week, bound for San Francisco: Army Private William S. Girard, 22, and his Japanese bride Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27. Five months before, wild eagle screams had sounded across the U.S. when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Girard, accused of shooting a Japanese woman in the back on a firing range, would have to stand trial for manslaughter in a Japanese court; from Capitol Hill to Girard's home town of Ottawa, Ill., flag-waving orators, commentators and editorialists deplored handing over...
...Compared with 8,346,137 pop. for London's 693 sq. mi., 7,771,509 for New York's 319 sq. mi. Greater Tokyo (which includes the sprawling port of Yokohama) is also much more heavily populated (approximately 20 million) than either the New York metropolitan area (15.5 million) or Greater London (10 million...
...Yokohama hospital a Navyman with the mumps stared blearily at a Japanese magazine and started seeing things. To Lieut. Commander Bryant W. Line, who does not read Japanese, the stylized dabs and curlicues of the brushwork characters, known as Kanji, conjured up all manner of fanciful situations: poker players in a pup tent, an irate baseball umpire, a boy peering wistfully into a saloon...