Word: akira
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mixed Feelings. Of many new houses near the park, the closest belongs to straggle-bearded Akira Yamamoto, 37, a sewing-machine merchant whose back stoop is only 80 feet from the shaft. During the war Yamamoto worked in a munitions plant ten miles away, while his wife and older children were in the country, but his parents lived in the target area and were killed...
...seven were: Hideki Tojo, wartime Premier of Japan; General Kenji Doihara, who had engineered the Mukden Incident in 1931; General Heitaro Kimura, former commander in Manchuria; General Iwane Matsui, responsible for the rape of Nanking; General Akira Muto, former chief of staff in the Philippines; ex-Premier (1936-37) Koki Hirota; ex-War Minister Seishiro Itagaki...
...DAVID AKIRA ITAMI...
Next day the Jap had two more air-raid alarms, and this week he still hissed with dismay. He sacked the chief of the home command, Lieut. General Akira Muto, and he filled the air with illogical or contradictory blasts which only seemed to add to the magnitude of the bombers' success. Contradicting his story that only schools and hospitals had been hit, a Tokyo dispatch (via Berlin) announced that the Government would pay to rebuild the industrial plants that had been damaged. More important, he said that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that...
...DAVID AKIRA ITAMI...