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...practices of peace returned to Hawaii last week. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. military authorities in Hawaii had no scruples about interning 878 Japanese aliens and Jisho Yamazaki. Yamazaki was a priest of the Buddhist Soto cult, which played a great part in whipping up Jap militarism...
...Japanese guerrillas on Peleliu (TIME, March 31) surrendered last week, finally convinced by the loudspeaker broadcasts of a Japanese admiral that the war had ended. They were disarmed and will be repatriated to Japan. But this week the Marine reinforcements had one more job: to investigate reports that more Jap holdouts are still on the loose, farther up the Palau Islands...
...lady (TIME, Nov. 19, 1939). She had decided to stick it out with her two-year-old son and her British husband, who was North Borneo's Director of Agriculture. Three Came Home is Mrs. Keith's blow-by-blow account of 3½ years in Jap prison camps-an ugly, brutal story, quietly and sometimes humorously told...
...first four months things weren't too bad in Sandakan: the Japs looted thoroughly but neither killed nor raped anyone. Mrs. Keith was beaten up by soldiers while pregnant and ill and had a miscarriage-but that was only a mild foretaste of things to come. The prisoners were moved to Berhala Island just offshore. Women & children were housed in one crowded, ill-ventilated barrack; the men some distance away in another. Said the Jap commanding officer: "You are a fourth-class nation now. Therefore your treatment will be fourth-class, and you will live and eat as coolies...
...Formosa (ending Japanese possession since 1895), 64-year-old Chen had seized an opportunity himself. With his Chinese aides and "monopoly police" he took over and expanded the Japanese system of government industrial and trade monopoly (sugar, camphor, tea, paper, chemicals, oil refining, cement). He confiscated some 500 Jap-owned factories and mines, tens of thousands of houses. As the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Pao remarked, he ran everything "from the hotel to the night-soil business." The Formosans felt like colonial stepchildren rather than long-lost sons...