Word: baka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raging Socialist Katsu Nomizu dashed up to the Speaker's rostrum, kicked Liberal Speaker Senzo Higai smartly in the shin. "Baka!"*(Idiot), screamed Liberal Shu Kara, flooring Nomizu in the aisle. "Stop! Quit! Disreputable!" shouted members from both sides of the house. But in a moment Japan's first postwar Diet session resembled a brawl in a frontier saloon, as members traded insults, shook one another, swung futile fists...
...explosive warhead in the nose. It may have been modeled after the pilotless German V-i robomb, which it resembles in size and destructive capacity. Japanese broadcasts have glorified it under the name Jinrai ("sudden peal of thunder"), but U.S. fighting men promptly tagged it with another Japanese term, baka ("stupid"). In operation, Stupid is carried near its target by a bomber, then cut loose. The pilot glides down and can fire three rockets in the tail to give him bursts of speed for his death dive...
Meanwhile the fleet was again heavily engaged. For an hour and a half Japanese bombers, Kamikaze crash-dive planes and baka bomb pilots smashed at U.S. shipping. When it was all over, U.S. gunners, ashore, afloat and aloft, could count up 168 enemy planes and one baka bomb destroyed...
...baka had a 16-ft. wingspread, an estimated range of 35 to 40 miles, a speed of from 400 to 600 m.p.h. (depending upon the angle of dive). It had twin rudders, but first reports from the Pacific said it seemed to be wild and difficult to steer...
Airmen and ack-ack gunners gave the bakas the standard defense treatment. But more were expected to appear; as long as the supply of Japanese fanatics and plane manufacturers held out, the baka would be a menace...