Word: jap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Quelpart Island, off the Korean peninsula's southern tip, the Japs had an air base. In March-according to last week's reports-Korean workers suddenly attacked the base, set fire to four underground hangars, destroyed two big fuel tanks and 69 airplanes, killed 142 of the Jap crew and wounded or scorched another 200. Trembling with rage and fright, the surviving Japanese butchered every Korean on the island, some...
...Malaya the Japs set up monopolies in salt, tobacco, matches. To get more money, they sold chances on a million-yen lottery to the Malays. At Singapore, a college of colonial administration was established for aspiring Jap administrators. Also opened in Singapore was a tourist bureau extolling the beauties of Nippon...
China. The Jap grew daily more fierce in the occupied provinces of China. Bloodcurdling stories of mass massacres seeped out of newly occupied Chekiang Province. In the northern Hopei-Shantung-Shansi triangle the Japs tried a scorched-earth policy of burning out villages and frightening civilians from whom guerrilla bands receive food and shelter. But in Shanghai the Japanese had been busy trying to make the Chinese like their puppet government...
Everywhere Jap propaganda told the natives how much better off they were now than under white rule, and everywhere the natives looked back on white rule as paradise lost. With occidental markets for their produce cut off, they were thrown out of work by the hundreds of thousands. They starved and grumbled. They saw their rice being snatched for other parts of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere" (i.e. Japan), with Japanese greed heightened by subnormal crops at home. A Japanese problem was to find enough ships to carry the loot...
West Coast fishermen have troubles too. The sardine haul normally runs over a billion pounds a year (onefourth of the entire U.S. catch), goes into food, fish oil, fish meal and fertilizer. But this year bad weather, the loss of Jap and Italian crewmen, and Navy restrictions on when & where fishermen can fish have slashed output as much as 50%. The valuable tuna catch has also slumped, for the big fish are caught only in deep water far offshore. Fish prices have not risen as in New England. Reason: the Government is buying the entire 1942 sardine and tuna catch...