Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Commander was annoyed because strikes were tying up vital communications and public utilities. He suspected that Communist-tinged unions especially those affiliated with the clangorous Congress of International Unions (Japan's C.I.O.), were using their privileges to sabotage the occupation. When a seamen's walkout at Sasebo halted the sailing of five merchant ships which were to bring repatriates from the Ryukyu Islands and Manchuria, MacArthur decided it was time for plain speaking. He directed the Japanese Government to man and operate the ships and take necessary steps to prevent further walkouts. The Government was to carry...
Promptly the Sasebo strikers scrambled back aboard their ships. The All-Japan Seamen's Union assured the Supreme Commander that there would be no further interference with repatriation shipping. To date, 4,500,000 Japanese have been repatriated from the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...Maxim Litvinov, longtime Soviet Foreign Commissar and Ambassador to the U.S., was "released from his duties" as Deputy Foreign Minister. Into his shoes stepped the former Soviet Ambassadors to Britain and Japan, Fedor Gusev and Yakov Malik...
Crows see a good deal of native folk art in Japan, and sheer away from it on sight. G.I.s got a chance to inspect the same art at closer range last week when the farmers of the little village of Narita topped off a four-day summer festival with an exhibition of their best new scarecrows...
...Government had banned all weather reports. The war had blocked imports of weather houses from Switzerland, Germany and Japan. And although Americans were familiar with weather houses, millions of them had never owned one. With a wife and two children to support, what better prospects could a man want than to get out and sell weather houses all over...