Word: koreanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the next-to-last major enemy pocket on Okinawa (on Oroku Peninsula) was being mopped up, as many as 145 Japs surrendered in a single day. It almost seemed that the lower ranks might be seeing the light. But the prisoners were mostly Okinawan and Korean service troops, far from typical of Jap fighting men. The typical attitude was shown by Jap officers who shot their enlisted men for trying to surrender. And for each soldier who even tried, there were many more who willingly killed themselves...
...putting together bits of information about Jap plans for the future. Well before the evacuation of Nanning and the abandonment of the corridor, the Japs started continental redispositions. Two new divisions were recently sent to Indo-China, and divisions already there have been brought up to strength with Korean and Formosan replacements. The chewed-up Burmese divisions have been pulled back to Thailand...
...question that has worried mission-minded churchmen since Pearl Harbor was partially answered last week. Had the roots of Christianity been planted deep enough in Japan to withstand the erosion of war? Probably not-according to a 28-year-old Korean theological student, who had been drafted into the Japanese Army from Tokyo's Nippon Theological College, later escaped and made his way to Chungking...
...told a Religious News Service correspondent that Christianity in Japan is much weaker today than it was in 1941; of the 350,000 native Japanese who were Christians before the war, about 100,000 are still church members. One who has stood firm, said the Korean, is the famed Japanese Christian leader, Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). Though it was widely rumored that he supported the government's warmongering, Kagawa actually was thrown in jail nearly two years ago for his open opposition...
...wages on Saipan and Tinian have been fixed at a standard level of 35 to 50? a day, plus food, clothing, shelter. That is enough for the Jap, Korean and Chamorro laborers to buy U.S. cigarets (at 7? a pack),* cloth, soap, toilet paper, shampoo, dark glasses, and occasional candy bars-all covered by rigid price ceilings...