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...works hard at being a radio teacher of English, which he interlards with American slang dating back to the '20s. "You bet your life!" a Hirakawa-trained Japa-nese will cry, and "Atta girl!" and "Boy oh boy!" Nicknamed "Uncle Come-Come" because the theme song of his weekday program is an adaptation of the old Japanese children's song Come, Come, Everybody, Joe teaches his listeners about 30 new words each show. He uses short dialogues that have such everyday applications as giving road directions to a stranger or shopping in a department store. Every Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Uncle Come-Come | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Died. Mitsura Toyama, 89, longtime leader of Japan's arch-terroristic Black Dragon Society, often regarded as the secret center of the most determined Japa nese militarism; in Gotemba, Japan. Born into Japan's Samurai class, Toyama worked for recovery of Japan's military prestige,, became so feared that newspapers printed asterisks instead of his name. While the Black Dragon was credited with many of the political assassinations paving the way toward military domination of the Empire, frail, aloof Toyama kept largely to his mean wooden house near Fujiyama, was never convicted of a crime, seemed unwilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 16, 1944 | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...that we college teachers are the forgotten men and women of the war. Those of us who feel that the reasons for which we entered the profession are still valid are deter mined to stick it out. . . . We know that China's war is not solely against the Japa ese; it is almost equally against ignorance and poverty, and our battle on the education front will go on long after the last shot is fired at the invader." Professor Lo (University of Chicago, Ph.D.): "When a boy comes to you for guidance . . . when a girl wants your advice . . . when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One Pleasure Remains | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...city of Kunming, at the top of the Burma Road. There U.S. ferry planes from General Elmer Edward Adler's India-based Army Air Forces refuel. The closing of the Burma Road itself had clamped a terrible constriction on China's thin lines of supply. Japa nese occupation of Yunnan would draw the cord tighter, could even throttle China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Back Door to China | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

THREE HUMAN BOMBS "The highest and noblest monument of war was erected near Shanghai by the Three Human Bombs at Miaohangchen. At dawn on March 22, 1932, in a general attack on Miaohangchen a certain Japa nese Division, which marched from Woosung, encountered great obstacles through the stubborn resistance of the Chinese troops, which, firmly entrenched, defied the fierce onset of the Imperial Army. The Chinese soldiers raised strong defense works there during a month. A way had to be cut through these deadly obstacles for the Imperial troops. Three heroes of a Japanese sappers' corps, named Takeji Eshita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Human Torpedoes'' | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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