Word: fujiyama
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...minute later a squadron of absolutely World War model biplanes took after the B25. These machines were so decrepit that the wind from our bomber was enough to scatter them. After this the American raider flew away unchallenged and disappeared against the side of Fujiyama...
...Sugar King Aiichiro Fujiyama, president of the Japan Chamber of Commerce, and Industry, who said in 1941: "The original promoters of the system of Gross-raumwirtschaft (regional economy) are Britain...
...nearly 400 acres. Hundreds of war planes, complete and incomplete, stood in the fields outside the guarded buildings. TWA's stratoliner roared off with him toward the darkening east, above the clouds, over the Painted Desert, past the San Francisco Mountains, whose highest peak rises higher than sacred Fujiyama. When the plane came down at Albuquerque (on another huge new Army air field) Saburo Kurusu had already flown in the U.S. farther than from Shanghai to Chungking. And he was less than a third of the way across the enormous room...
...most gaging comment of all came from near the base of the famed extinct volcano Fujiyama, where a reporter interviewed extinct Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Mr. Matsuoka, who in frock coat had signed both the Tripartite Pact and the neutrality pact with Russia (and therefor lost his job) was now dressed in a dark blue cotton gown and triangular straw hat. He carried a long staff and smoked his old briar pipe. Mused...
...churchmen left Riverside with a real feeling that the Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan (Japan Christian Church), being as indigenous as Fujiyama, might make Japan more Christian than foreign missions ever succeeded in doing. Japanese delegates had made the point that Christianity flourished in 16th-Century Japan after the evangelism of St. Francis Xavier, when the authorities suspected that it might be preparing the way for the conquest of Japan by European countries as the Philippine Islands had been conquered. For more than two centuries, Christians were forbidden to enter Japan on pain of death. With Japanese at the helm...