Word: kaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Former Finance Minister Okinobu Kaya was less lyrical, more explicit. Kaya's poem...
Could the nations that had tried Tojo, Kaya & Co. say the same? There were signs of growing uneasiness over war-crimes cases that had dragged on for years. Tojo's conviction might be a good place to stop and close the account...
...Javanese natives, scorned, beaten, cooperated in some instances with the Japs. But most of them turned the Jap propaganda back on their bowlegged conquerors. They made up their own slogans, which they passed around by word of mouth. One sample: Asia Raya, Nippon Kaya, Asia Paya, which means: in "Greater Asia" Japan will be richer but the rest of Asia will live in misery. The confident Javanese natives had their own three "A"s: Awas Ada America, which means: "Beware, there is America." The Javanese are also biding their time...
...Skeptical correspondents were informed that Kosmo and Demyan were both proper first names, which had been combined to make an all-inclusive family name with the feminine ending kaya. Hence, said Moscow, any similarity in pronunciation between Kosmodemyanskaya and "Damyankee" was purely coincidental...