Word: jap
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...Santo Tomas, ravenous prisoners had scrambled for garbage, for roots, for cats to eat (they found they taste like rabbit). In the camp's black market they had bartered diamond rings and watches for condensed milk and rice, had paid thousands of dollars for food the Jap guards stole from the camp storehouse. Additional supplies were smuggled past Jap guards by solemn-faced stretcher-bearers...
General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the conqueror of Singapore and Bataan, was about to evacuate Manila and take to the hills of northern Luzon, to get away from General Douglas MacArthur's advancing legions. To Jap correspondents in Manila, Yamashita declaimed & explained: "At last I have MacArthur in my iron trap. I have been chasing him all over the South Seas and each time he has slipped away from me. This time it will be different, and my pleasure of a face-to-face meeting will be realized...
...continuing mop-up of enemy remnants in the Marianas, a Japanese was captured, so badly wounded that he could not survive without a blood transfusion. A company commander, who knew that his men had been so sickened by Jap tactics that they believed the only good Jap was a dead Jap, made the gesture of asking for volunteers. Every man in the company offered to give blood...
...great immediate threat was from Nimitz, who could pick his way up the steppingstone islands to the mouth of Tokyo Bay. Whether Japan could be invaded before the Jap armies on the mainland of Asia had been engaged was still debatable. But the way to China did not necessarily lie through Luzon and Formosa. The Japs themselves had pointed to the possibility of a northern route through the Ryukyu Islands to the great ports around the mouth of the Yangtze River...
...enemy's whole behavior in Manila followed a planned dog-in-the-manger pattern. Early in December, a month before the landings at Lingayen Gulf, the Japs had installed demolition charges in large buildings. Flimsy warehouses had been stocked with drums of gasoline. Forty-eight hours after U.S. forces entered northern Manila. Jap demolition engineers pressed the buttons. Electrically connected charges went off in series. The main business district-eight blocks of the Calle Escolta-began to burn. There was no water pressure to fight the fires. Many Filipinos looked on apathetically, made no move to help U.S. soldiers...