Word: chibas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soon, he owned six factories in Tokyo, making communications parts for the Japanese army. Negishi took off his overalls, moved with his wife and three children into a fine residential district. He invested some of his profits in miscellaneous real estate, including a pleasant country inn located in picturesque Chiba county, near Tokyo...
...burst. Heavy Allied bombardments smashed most of his factory equipment. By war's end, the Negishi Manufacturing Co. was reduced to one dilapidated repair shop. For a while Negishi kept on trying to find orders. But times were bad. He grew disgusted, retired to his country inn in Chiba, where he found pleasant company in the inn's manager, a lissome 23-year-old girl...
Then Mrs. Negishi was heard from. He had left her and the kids behind in sweltering Tokyo and she, too, wanted a vacation in verdant Chiba. Wearily, Negishi returned to Tokyo to see what he could do about his wife's wish. With him was a 17-year-old youngster (the brother of the girl at the inn) who happened to be a pickpocket by profession. One day, when Negishi wondered aloud how he would ever pay for his wife's holiday, his companion advanced an idea. In one day, the pair lifted 800 yen ($2.20) from passengers...
Died. Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, 80, Hirohito's Polonius and Premier on V-J day; of a liver ailment; in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. A cautious navyman, lie was hated as a "moderate" by the military jingoists, who left him for dead in the 1936 young-officer insurrection, hounded him into hiding after the 1945 surrender...
...front, Fifty Bells's ears were assailed by the screams of sirens and the drone of enemy bombing planes over Tokyo. Next morning, when the bombers had gone away, he was nowhere to be found. Without Fifty Bells, the Akais moved to Chiba, where they stayed until Japan's surrender...