Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks had been streaming overseas from U.S. ports (the New York post office sent out 1,790,389 packages between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15), formed a network which tied America to every corner of the world where Christmas was cherished. Some 30,000 of them went to Japan, which had the brightest holidays since the war, with gay, Oriental Santa Clauses smiling in front of well-stocked department stores. But many a Japanese mother pulled her child away from the images of Santa "Kurosu" and from the store counters because she could not afford to pay the high prices...
...Chinese Communists held uncontested control of the Asian coastline from the Gulf of Tonkin almost to Vladivostok. Only the remnants of the Nationalist armies stood against the certainty that China's Communists would try to take Formosa, thus driving a dangerous wedge between strategic U.S. positions in Japan and Okinawa to the north, and in the Philippines to the south...
...doing their best to supply the island's rich and potentially profitable industries (sugar, aluminum, cement and coal). But Formosa's industries are painfully short of capital. Many Formosan businessmen blame many of their financial troubles on SCAP, whose red-taped regulations prevent virtually all trade between Japan and Formosa...
Honor Declined. He survived to carry on the Lord's work in western Canada, China and Japan. He was in the mountains near Tokyo when the earthquake of 1923 rocked the island, and he plunged into the work of relief. After eight years he was brought back home, and later made financial secretary of the army's U.S. Central Territory...
...time the division had won its 19th Medal of Honor and its 18,337th Purple Heart after Okinawa, it was ready to take on more replacements and train for the invasion of Japan. But soon the war was over and all hands were on their way to China...