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...Japan last week the Eighth Army had abuilding the largest project yet: 55 acres at Chofu, 15 miles from Tokyo on the Tawa River; 25 acres at Otsu, six miles north of Kyoto on Lake Biwa. It hoped to harvest 120,000 Ibs. (some eight servings for every U.S. soldier in Japan and Korea) of fresh vegetables a week by next spring. Reason for the project: Japanese soil has been heavily fertilized with night soil for centuries; vegetables grown in such farmland are fresh but may harbor disease-producing bacteria like the typhoid bacillus...
...Kyoto had an exhibit of fine embroidery. The prize went to an obi (sash) from the Nishijin textile cooperative. Its price...
...jampacked industrial cities are wrecked: Kobe 56%, Nagasaki 30%, Nagoya 31%, Osaka 26%, Yokohama 44%. Of Japan's important cities only one was untouched: Kyoto, the shrine city, apparently spared for psychological reasons...
...donned the ritualistic orange raiment of his forebears. From Tokyo he rode in a crimson carriage to the old capital at Kyoto. There, in a confident, resonant voice, he read his imperial Rescript, announcing his ascension. Alone, save for two attendants, he appeared, once before midnight and once after, at the shrine of his ancestress the Sun Goddess and offered her a sacrifice of holy rice...
...Still unburned: Kyoto, Japan's greatest inland city, and Yokohama, on the waterfront of Tokyo...