Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swing Shift. In Matsuyama, Japan, eight-year-old Tojo Shinagawa's father changed his son's first name to Kiyotoshi, explained that the boy was fed up with classmates asking when he would be hanged...
...MacArthur's alert military ear, the Communist sweep through China carried an ominous and familiar rumble. Only seven years ago, in Manila, he had seen the gathering storm of Japanese conquest. He appealed for reinforcements which could not be supplied, hopelessly watched the envelopment of the Philippines. Could Japan become a latter-day Bataan...
Cozy Concept. For months, the JCS hopefully contended that the Communist conquest of China constituted no immediate threat to U.S. security in the Pacific; Japan was the U.S.'s bastion and it was safe in MacArthur's hands. MacArthur himself now blasted this cozy concept. In the north, the Russians had always been in position to attack the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido from Vladivostok and their bases in the Kurils. The southward plunge of Chinese Reds now threatened to give Russia domination of the China coast down to Shanghai...
...establish bases from which an airborne conquest of thinly guarded Okinawa would be a cinch. The waters from Okinawa to Hokkaido could be patrolled by their 100 long-range submarines. In short, the fall of China, MacArthur observed, had made possible the military threat of a "double envelopment" of Japan. There was no evidence of an impending Soviet attack. If it came, it could only precipitate, or be part of, the world's worst war. But the business of a commander is not to guess whether a potential enemy intends to attack but to estimate, his ability to attack...
...court before which the trial of Japan's war leaders dragged on for 2½ dreary years in Tokyo's somber old War Ministry building lacked even Nürnberg's dignity. Eleven judges had been picked by U.S. General MacArthur from names submitted by eleven nations; there was bickering throughout the trial. At the final verdict (TIME, Nov. 22), the court's prestige was further muddied by U.S. Prosecutor Joseph Keenan's remark that Mamoru Shigemitsu (for whom he had asked the death sentence) should really have been acquitted. Presiding Justice Sir William Webb...