Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Douglas MacArthur says that his headquarters does not interfere with freedom of the press in Occupied Japan. But sometimes, when news unfavorable to SCAP comes along, there is hidden interference...
Anybody with a bank account and sailing experience can sail the Pacific next summer according to Brice Sumner '53, who plans to pilot a 35-foot sailboat from Nagoya, Japan, to San Francisco...
Sumner, who says his parents have approved of the plan, is looking for a two-man crew to make the trip and share expenses. He plans to have the boat built in Japan and sail the southern route, stopping at Guam, Wake, Midway, and the Hawaiian Islands...
...Copy. When Commodore Matthew Perry and his "black boats" opened up Japan to the Western world in 1854, Dr. Hepburn heard a special call for his services which he could not refuse. The Presbyterians wanted to send a missionary, but the Japanese forbade conversion to Christianity on pain of death. A medical missionary was the answer; Dr.Hepburn set sail with his wife in 1859, to become one of the first Protestant missionaries to Japan...
...again last week in newspaper articles and at the unveiling of Yokohama's monument. Said Monument Committee Chairman Kumakichi Nakajima: "Lately we Japanese have made a great mistake in the direction of progress. We sincerely desire that this monument, although very small, may be a milestone for modern Japan's progress in the right direction...