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Witnessing the scene, a Domei reporter named Akimine said it made his eyes smart: "So much emotion packed into a single moment...
...Said Domei of an advance party of Navy flyers: "... [they were] very light-hearted and agreeable; they did not show any attitude, whether in speech or manner, of boasting of their victory. . . . The agreeable attitude shown by these pilots is something of which every Japanese must be ever mindful when coming into contact with the U.S. occupational forces from...
Ashore, U.S. photographers crouched side by side with Domei's lensmen, shooting the big shots. One Domei cameraman had carrier pigeons to fly his pictures back to his office. U.S. and Jap reporters elbowed each other at press conferences. Jap reporters obligingly gave out interviews, and in turn interviewed U.S. newsmen. (Didn't they agree that the bombing of Japanese cities was horrible?) The U.P. came up with an eyewitness description of atom-bombed Hiroshima from its onetime Tokyo office manager, Honolulu-born Leslie Nakashima, who went there to look up his mother. Wrote he: "I was dumfounded...
American reporters went into Tokyo ahead of the U.S. Army, simply taking a suburban train like thousands of other commuters. (Said an obliging fellow from the Jap Information Bureau: "When young gentlemen wish go Tokyo? Trains every half hour.") They dropped in at Domei, looked over the busy newsroom, were photographed chatting with the editors. A woman guide (born in California) was assigned to escort one group around. She said she wasn't Tokyo Rose: that was two other girls from Los Angeles. At the Imperial Palace one newsman got as far as the Emperor's foreign secretary...
...future is "reconstruction." (Other Government statements explained: reconstruction means new taxes, anti-inflation measures, quick industrial reconversion, more food production. Added Domei: because the enemy's superior science won victory, "we must devote ourselves to scientific knowledge...