Word: bonin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reassurances that Japan maintains "residual sovereignty" over the American-occupied Bonin and Ryukyus Islands, including Okinawa; i.e., it will eventually get them back, but not until conditions "of threat and tension" abate in the Far East...
...story in this book, Bonin Islands, about a fight between Pacific sealers and island natives, evokes a youthful, innocent hunger for strange places and, at the same time, a kind of mindless, hallucinatory quality. Yet it tells of real events that happened when young London, at 16, shipped on a sealer to the islands. After three years of kicking about the Pacific, he returned to the U.S. and, thirsting for knowledge, enrolled as a freshman at Oakland High School. The student literary journal, Aegis, published his Bonin Islands story, and its stay-at-home readers must have been awed...
...will not make the man's job any easier." The job: to follow up Allison's "civilianizing" of post-occupation Japanese-American relations. Chief problems: the future status of U.S. military bases in Japan, growing demands for return of such prewar Japanese possessions as Okinawa and the Bonin Islands, Japan's desire for more trade with Communist China...
Japanese nationalists have been making much noise about Japanese landowners on Okinawa being dispossessed by U.S. forces. Under the San Francisco Peace Treaty, the U.S. got control of Okinawa and the Bonin Islands (Iwo Jima) for as long as it feels a military need to be there. As the election neared, the government tried to hop on the bandwagon by criticizing U.S. occupation policies too, but it was too late...
...possibility of making a deal with Russia for the lost territories has affected even the planning of Germany's new army. Colonel Bogislav von Bonin, a brilliant officer who rose to become, at 36, an influential member of the German general staff before incurring Hitler's displeasure, proposed that Germany's new army should be defensive only. Von Bonin wanted West Germany's frontier guarded by small "blocking groups," armed chiefly with antitank guns and backed by militia. These would be backed, in turn, by six armored divisions based in Germany itself. The NATO divisions would...