Word: fukui
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When General "Jumping Joe" Swing, First Corps commander, came in from Corps Headquarters in Kyoto, 11 hours after Fukui's tragic earthquake (TIME, July 12) he asked TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans "How did you know there was going to be a quake here...
Mydans, who claims no crystal ball, was actually in Fukui to dig up material for a forthcoming TIME story on Japanese recovery. He wanted to observe a segment of Japanese life that was not directly under the influence of Tokyo, an area which had been hurt by war but had recovered quickly, in which farming, fishing, and business were all represented, and where the American military government commander knew and liked the people and had won their confidence. "We selected Fukui as a good sampling ground," cabled Mydans, as a postscript to his disaster report, "and had found...
Between helping the injured, working his camera, and taking his story notes, Mydans found plenty of evidence why the people of Fukui held the American military governor, Lt. Col. James Hyland, in such high regard. In socks and undershorts, Hyland's instant command was "set up a first aid station on the lawn"-where broken and bleeding Japanese flocked even before the second quake hit a few minutes later. Then, when it was discovered that all communication was cut off, he ordered three reconnaissance teams to fight their way out of the city, and not to come back until...
...Army dines early in Fukui. At 5:14 p.m. we were sitting in the concrete officers' mess, waiting for dessert and coffee. There wasn't any warning-the floor just pushed up under us, and great chunks of wall and ceiling began to crash about us. We staggered for doors and windows, knocking into each other and falling to the floor. The driveway before the building buckled up before me as I bounced over it, while concrete slabs thudded down from above. We flung ourselves on the compound lawn, but the earth shook so violently that some...
...passed Japanese firemen trying to pump water from the palace moat, the only remaining source in the whole city. After the B-29s, people had taken refuge in the waters of the moat, hoping to escape the flames; hundreds of bodies had been found there. The people of Fukui say that tonight's quake was worse than...