Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emperor Hirohito and his Government, headed by jut-jawed Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, were serving the Allies but were understandably nervous. Neither American use of the Imperial institution, nor Japanese reverence for it, necessarily required the indefinite presence of Hirohito himself. Jap and U.S. thoughts alike were much upon Hirohito's son, eleven-year-old Prince Akihito, and the Emperor's frail younger brother, Prince Chichibu, the logical (but not inevitable) choice for regent...
...last week Asahi got the toughest rapdown yet meted out to any Jap paper by General MacArthur: a two-day suspension. Reason: Asahi had darkly suggested that "some people think [the] announcement of Japanese atrocities may be timed to offset the news about outrages committed by some American soldiers in Japan " (Japs have accused G.I.s of rape.) Next day MacArthur suspended for one day the English-language Nippon-Times...
...been going on ever since: when a general finishes a war, he sits down and writes about it. Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
...educators is a man who has not lived in the U.S. for 40 years. Since 1919, thin, balding John Leighton Stuart, 69, has been President of China's No. 1 Christian university, American-endowed Yenching. The past three and a half of these years have been spent in Jap captivity. In Chungking last week Dr. Stuart, perhaps the most respected American in China, told his story...
...When the Japs overran Peiping in 1937, Yenching, just five miles away, became an oasis of free learning: the Japs then were too sensitive to U.S. opinion to move in. But they ordered President Stuart to hoist the puppet-regime flag and to give personal "thanks" to the Jap militia for the invasion. Dr. Stuart refused, and got away with it. For three years before Pearl Harbor he was used to transmit peace feelers between the Chinese and the Japs. At 8:20 a.m., Dec. 8, 1941, Dr. Stuart's freedom ended...