Nipponese
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Nipponese
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Some SO miles from the coast of Japan, the Nipponese man-of-war Manchu dropped its sounding lead.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Japan he plays golf, provides a pictorial essay on Nipponese methods of hairdress, has his cameraman photograph Fujiyama.
From Time Magazine Archive
An old Nipponese castle around a small lake, the pavilion demonstrates the manufacture of silk, parasols, dolls; offers a culinary oddity, tea ice-cream, nauseous grey-green in color, but pleasantly piquant in taste.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the body of a soldier of Japan's veteran, ill-famed 18th Division, soldiers found a bit of Nipponese poesy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Nipponese merely occupied some of the larger cities and controlled the main roads for three years, during which time they established much ill-will of the Filipinos, only serving to strengthen the resistance movements.
From Blood Brothers A Medic's Sketch Book by Sam Rohlfing
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