Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emma and Kathleen were big, blowy and as like as two sisters, but there was nothing homey or lovable about either of them. Christened by Army weathermen and by the Red Cross, Kathleen was a typhoon* which last week rolled over Japan's main island of Honshu, leaving hundreds dead or homeless, and Emma was a hurricane which took two ferocious licks...
...Matter of Diplomacy. Father Lassalle found that isolated Brazilian Japanese had been terrorizing "defeatists" among their own people who spread "rumors" of Japan's surrender (TIME, Aug. 26, 1946). Merchants who told the truth were boycotted; at least 14 "rumor spreaders" were said to have been murdered. Even letters from home were denounced as a Yankee trick. Some stubbornly believed that the Emperor of Japan would soon become Emperor of the world. Meanwhile, Sao Paulo swindlers cleaned up selling passage on non-existent ships to new non-existent Japanese colonies...
Father Lassalle began his mission with gingerly diplomacy. In speeches to Brazil's Japanese colonies, he would refer to the presence of U.S. troops in Japan, the civilian need for food & clothing, the fact that Japan still had a future, after all. But after he had finished talking, people would still go away saying to each other, "Well, you see-the Father did not actually say Japan had lost...
Finally, at a meeting in the interior, a man rose in the audience to say: "You must tell them absolutely clearly that Japan lost the war with unconditional surrender, by order of the Emperor." Another voice in the audience suggested that it would be dangerous, at which a dignified patriarch rose to announce in a commanding voice: "There is no danger." Father Lassalle told them. Absolute silence followed...
...These people in Brazil are our best reason for conversions in Japan. The people in Japan once thought and felt the same. They have now been humiliated, crushed, and had their eyes opened, and the chance for Christian missions in Japan is several hundred percent of what it was before...