Nintendo + Military Governance

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(1) James Kennedy, Mario's Many Fathers: "Donkey Kong' confused arcade vendors. All you do is jump? Why can't you just shoot the stupid ape?  Wall Street Journal, Aug 19, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904006104576502744235853146.html
(book review on Jeff Ryan, Super Mario; How Nintendo conquered America. Portfolio Penquin, 2011)

Note:
(a) Space Invaders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders
(designed by Tomohiro NISHIKADO 西角 友宏; released in 1978; manufactured and sold by Taito 太東 in Japan)
(b) Minoru ARAKAWA 荒川 實
(c) blue-plate special
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-plate_special
(d) Shigeru MIYAMOTO 宮本 茂
(e) Gunpei YOKOI 横井 軍平
(f) ugh (interjection): "used to indicate the sound of a cough or grunt or to express disgust or horror"
www.m-w.com
(g) Atari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari
(The original Atari Inc. was founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney; section 1.1 Atari Inc. (1972–1984): In Japanese, atari is the nominalized form of ataru 当たる (verb), meaning "to hit the target" or "to receive something fortuitously")
(h) go-kart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-kart
(i) Pac-Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-man
(developed by Namco; first released in Japan on May 22, 1980)

* Namco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco
(Masaya Nakamura 中村 雅哉 founded the company as Nakamura Manufacturing in 1955; Nakamura Manufacturing was reorganized in 1958 and underwent a slight name change to Nakamura Manufacturing Co., which would later be used to form the acronym Namco)


(2) Mark Moyar, Washington Rivalry: Is Barack Obama a 'Militarist'? Worrying about the increased powers of the Defense Department. Wall Street Journal, Aug 12, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576510502556813690.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
(book review on Stephen Glain, State v Defense. Crown, 2011)

Quote:

"This 'militaristic' policy dates back much further than Mr. Glain's narrative. After the Civil War, the U.S. Army governed the former Confederacy because no other federal entity had the necessary manpower. Following the annexation of the Philippines in 1899, the U.S. Army governed the islands with a degree of administrative competence and integrity that earned it renown among the populace. During World War II, Franklin Roosevelt tasked the military with administering occupied Axis territories after the State Department's mismanagement of the North African occupation revealed appalling deficiencies. American military governors were remarkably successful in rehabilitating Germany and Japan after the war.



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