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Word: jap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Roxas had many intimate friends among the Japanese, including General Wachi, former "Director General" of the Jap administration in the Philippines. General Tojo himself sent three top Jap army medical corps men from Japan to attend to his friend Roxas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...intrepid Guerrilla and able Administrator Confesor, TIME'S thanks for an honest opinion. But the definitive ruling on Roxas' much-disputed role in the Jap occupation must come from the Philippine people, who will decide April 23 whether they want him or Sergio Osmeña for their first President under independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...pack-jammed convict ships which once plied between Britain's jails and the prison pens of Botany Bay had nothing on the destroyer Yoizuki. She was a hell-ship to match the worst of them. Sailing from Sydney last week, the reconditioned 3,000-ton Jap warship had room for only about a third of the 1,005 homeward-bound Formosans, Filipinos and Jap P.O.W.s crammed aboard her. In the hot, fetid holds there was little air, no toilets and barely enough water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Hellship | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...just as the Allied column was making the entrance of Sunda Strait, the Perth, in the van, sighted two Jap ships. Soon more appeared-the Allied ships had run into a Jap invasion armada of transports and their escort. The battle-if anything so one-sided could be called a battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Death of the Houston | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...Americans as "greasy foreigners," had declared tolerance "bunk," and said that "democracy would never succeed in America." The principal charge: that Miss Quinn had written on the blackboard six sentences out of a Jew-baiting leaflet, The First Americans. These sentences overgenerously credited Irish-Americans with killing the first Jap, sinking the first battleship, carrying out the first FT raid, bagging the first Jap plane, capturing the first German spy, winning the first presidential citation. She left out the anti-Semitic punch line, but her critics said the inference was obvious. She was suspended on charges of intolerance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bigotry Condoned | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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