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Miki, Takeo

(Encyclopedia)Miki, Takeo, 1907–88, Japanese politician, prime minister of Japan (1974–76). He attended Meiji Univ. and the Univ. of California, Los Angeles, and was first elected to the Diet in 1937. An advoca...

Legaspi

(Encyclopedia)Legaspi or Legazpi ləgăˈspē, lāgäˈ– [key], city (1990 pop. 121,116), capital of Albay prov., SE Luzon, the Philippines, on Albay Gulf. It is a large seaport and the southern terminus of the M...

Ashida, Hitoshi

(Encyclopedia)Ashida, Hitoshi, 1887–1959, Japanese politician. He studied law at Tokyo Imperial Univ. and worked in the ministry of foreign affairs before being elected to the Diet in 1932 as a member of the Seiy...

koto

(Encyclopedia)koto kōˈtō [key], a Japanese string instrument related in structure to the zither. It consists of an elongated rectangular wooden body, strung lengthwise with 7 to 13 silk strings. The uniformly lo...

Saionji, Kimmochi, Prince

(Encyclopedia)Saionji, Kimmochi, Prince kēmōˈchē sīōnˈjē [key], 1850–1940, Japanese statesman. He took part in the Meiji restoration, then spent 10 years in France, absorbing many democratic ideas. In 188...

Marquand, John Phillips

(Encyclopedia)Marquand, John Phillips märˈkwänd [key], 1893–1960, American novelist, b. Wilmington, Del., grad. Harvard, 1915. Most of Marquand's gently satirical novels examine life among the rich and sociall...

Tinian

(Encyclopedia)Tinian tĭnēănˈ, tēnēänˈ [key], island (2010 pop. 3,136), 39 sq mi (101 sq km), W Pacific, one of the Northern Mariana Islands. The island lies immediately SW of Saipan. The inhabitants are of ...

Bangka

(Encyclopedia)Bangka or Banka both: bängˈkä, băngˈkə [key], island, c.4,600 sq mi (11,910 sq ...

Vereshchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich

(Encyclopedia)Vereshchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich vəsēˈlyē vəsēlˈyəvĭch vyĕrĭshchäˈgĭn [key], 1842–1904, Russian painter, soldier, and traveler. He is best known for his military pictures, which portra...

Virginia creeper

(Encyclopedia)Virginia creeper, native woody vine (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) of the family Vitaceae (grape family), tall growing and popular as a wall covering in the temperate United States. It has blue-black b...