Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan, with its flimsy construction, was said to be No. i opportunity for fire, but I doubt if many died except from bomb contact or atom-bomb poison, because they could...
When Molotov arrived, Ribbentrop led him to Hitler, who began by saying that since Britain would soon admit defeat, it was high time the Big Four (Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan) divided the British Empire. Hitler added that as Germany and Russia had already settled their spheres of interest in eastern Europe "without friction," they should have no trouble settling bigger problems. For example, would Russia like an exit to the free, warm...
...first protocol, Germany's slice of empire was declared to lie "in South and Central Africa," Italy's "in North and Northeast Africa," Japan's "in East Asia to the South of her present empire," and Russia's "to the South of the territory of the Soviet Republics in the direction of the Indian Ocean...
...Zacharias was at sea in command of the heavy cruiser Salt Lake City. Ten months earlier, however, he had gone to call on Admiral Kimmel, "to lay before him my analysis and perhaps to place my knowledge of Japanese psychology at his disposal. . . . I told the Admiral . . . that if Japan decided on war with us she would open hostility with an air attack . . . probably on a Sunday morning...
...this time to prepare and deliver a series of radio talks in Japanese. Fourteen of these talks were beamed to Tokyo between May and August. They reached influential Japanese up to and including the Emperor, says their author, and were more instrumental than the atomic bomb itself in bringing Japan "emotionally and spiritually" to its knees. Yet Admiral Nimitz, among others, had been "persistently advised" against such psychological warfare...