Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guam's Apra Harbor 2,100 Japs marched aboard a Jap-manned transport en route to their homeland. By December 50,000 more-the last U.S. prisoners in the Pacific-will be returned. Some 90,000 British-held Japs will still remain, and the Dutch have announced that they intend to keep another 13,500 indefinitely in Indonesia for dockside and other heavy labor...
Author Hoberecht's plot was simple, sentimental and surefire: in captured Jap strongholds in the Pacific, War Correspondent Kent Wood found faded pin-up pictures of an almond-eyed cinema star (who looked a lot like Movie Actress Yetkiko Todoroki, good friend of the author). Later, in Tokyo, they met and fell in love. But they had to woo in secret, for her studio forbade fraternization. When another correspondent was murdered by a former Nazi spy, Hero Kent Wood was suspect. His girl friend tossed away her chance for a big role by confessing that she was with...
...Guadalcanal in 1942, Barney Ross got the Silver Star and a reputation as a Jap killer. He also got malaria. Brought home to the wartime U.S., he allowed his name and his medal to be exploited from coast to coast. Then he dropped out of sight. The next news of Barney Ross was when his showgirl war bride divorced him two months...
Though three other officers and ten smaller fry were also on trial, archvillain of the piece was Major Sueyo Matoba, a slim, mild, scholarly Jap with a sadistic nature which had won him the nickname "Tiger of Chichi Jima." Major Matoba had stomach ulcers; he also loved sake...
...little later, over tea and cakes, it was the Japs who were surprised when Stoddard thought to ask Hirohito's master of ceremonies Hidenari Terasaki whether the Emperor wanted a man or woman tutor. (Jap princes are traditionally removed from feminine influence, even their own mother's, at an early age.) Says Stoddard: "Terasaki thumped his teacup down on the mahogany table, really baffled. When he returned after consulting Hirohito, he said the Emperor wanted a woman...