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Word: aikoku (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shanghai branch includes Messrs. Sasaki, Kanaya and similar personalities known to every foreign correspondent. Jap navy members include such prominent figures as Admirals Takahashi, Suetsugu, Hasegawa, Yamamoto and Sekine. The head of the Aikoku Meirinkai, a powerful five-million-man military reserve organization, and the element which will form the home front army which we must fight when we invade Japan, is the notorious Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Seigo Nakano, who was a next-door neighbor of mine, is a director of the organization. From the second floor of our house, we could see over the high bamboo fence into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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