Word: komura
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...Burma, enlisted men maintain neat parade grounds, teak officers' quarters, even the occasional flower bed of marigolds and roses. Bugles sound morning reveille, and new recruits march to target practice under a gatepost that carries a black-lettered sign, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH. Even in Komura, a muddy labyrinth of trenches and bunkers 100 miles south, where some 500 Karen soldiers have been trapped in battle for months with the Burmese army, the men are high-minded. The only pinups on the walls are chaste photographs torn from Thai mail-order catalogs of ladies in bridal gowns...
...noon, and another round of shelling has begun in Komura. As the earth shudders, men drop into bunkers near a thick stand of bamboo trees. Nobody talks, but with each blast, the muscles in the men's faces tighten. Saw Klee Moo's face, however, remains smooth. When a rocket explodes nearby, shaking the ammunition crate where Saw Klee Moo crouches, he smiles. Saw Klee Moo is nearly 15 and certain that he will never be hit by a bomb...
...purpose in coming to Harvard is to see this great institution that has contributed so many distinguished men to Japan. Two of the greatest statesmen in modern Japan, Mr. Komura and Viscount Kaneko, have received degrees from Harvard. Naturally, I could not leave Harvard without seeing President Lowell...
...total sum collected by the Harvard Mission toward the Japanese Famine Relief Fund is $379.63, and this amount, less the cable and exchange charges and the small expense connected with the collecting, was yesterday cabled to Baron J. Komura L.'77 in Tokio...
...regular annual meeting of the Harvard Club of Japan was held recently in Tokio. On the motion of Baron Kaneko L. '78, the following officers were re-elected: President, Baron Jutaro Komura L. '77; vice-presidents, J. McD. Gardiner '79, and Kwanrokuro Makayama; secretary and treasurer, Baron Chokichi Kikkawa '83; general committee, Baron Kentaro Kaneko L. '78, E. H. Vickers '93, and Shuji Isawa. His Excellency Mr. L. C. Griscom, the new minister from the United States to Japan, was the guest of the club on this occasion...