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...Eight big Jap mines turned up along Oregon's coast* last week, were detonated by the Coast Guard, bringing the month's total...
Little, senior in rank among the prisoners, had been put in charge of their mess, made answerable to the Japs for camp discipline and food supplies. Those who hated him said he was a little dictator. Said one of his accusers: "He loved rules; even Japanese rules." They accused Little of cultivating the favor of his Jap captors by being their camp informer. The darkest charge of all: as a result of his reports to his captor-bosses, an Army enlisted man was beaten to death and a Marine Corps corporal was starved to death by the Japs; others were...
Many of Changchun's formerly handsome houses were stripped. Russian and Chinese looters, after the Jap surrender, had sometimes taken away even the roofs. The curfew kept citizens indoors from 8 at night to 5 in the morning. Those refusing to be searched by sentries were liable to be shot on the spot. All able-bodied men were subject to call for digging trenches...
After V-J day, Yamazaki was released. Promptly, he loosed a torrent of postcards, letters, and speeches. The Japanese had won the war, he claimed. He hoped to guide the Japanese in Hawaii, which, he said, the Jap fleet was "watching," back into the path of Soto righteousness. He exhorted: "You should be, like Lord Buddha, strong and ruling the universe as the most superior ones...
Jisho Yamazaki could go on proclaiming that Japan had won the war, that the Jap fleet still lurked below the horizon-as long as such talk presented no "clear and present danger" to Hawaii's peace of mind...