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Farther south on the east coast the U.S. Marines had also run into unexpected trouble. A Marine battalion was sent toward Kojo, 30 miles southeast of Wonsan, to defend a rail line threatened...
Hiroshima's Acting Governor Shigeru Kojo peered through tortoise-shell glasses and smiled through gold-capped teeth at the U.S. newsmen. They had come to a special press conference to hear a special plea: would it not be a splendid gesture if America helped rebuild the first city leveled by an atomic bomb...
...Thus rebuilt," said Shigeru Kojo, "Hiroshima will be an international symbol of humanity and peace . . . the cradle of a peace-loving, reconstructed Japan...
Because U.S. headquarters takes a dim view of all feudalistic imagery, no matter how lofty the castle, this and four equally affecting stanzas were banned in Japan last week. The news was likely to be calamitous only among Japanese schoolgirls, who favor the special love and lavender of Kojo no Tsuki ("Moonlight on the Ruined Castle") above all other popular songs...
...possible political power in a new U.S.A. would be Chief Nana Kojo Agyeaman of the Brongs. Impatient with Vichy's failure to resist Germany, he recently led his tribe from the French Ivory Coast to British Ashanti adjoining the Gold Coast. As they marched, the Brongs chanted a traditional song...