Word: kyushu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo District Court Judge Yoshitada Yamaguchi was an honest man. When his wife pleaded with him to sell some clothes and family possessions to buy food on the black market, he replied: "How can one who judges others do any black marketing?" When his father sent extra food from Kyushu island, he turned it all over to his family. He and his wife subsisted, precariously, on thin soup and corn meal gruel. Their food rations went to their two young sons...
...earthquake was the latest episode in the earth crust movement which ages ago pushed up the mountainous ridge of Japan. The active earthquake zone hugs the eastern shores of the islands from southernmost Kyushu to Hokkaido in the north. The part near the latest quake shows major activity every century...
Read with interest your article on a U.S. press reporter stating that the Japs "had made us look like monkeys" [TIME, Aug. 27]. As members of the occupation forces on Kyushu we have seen the monkeys being made and the coddling and too easy handling of the little yellow apes...
...OCCUPATION FORCE OFFICERS' NAMES WITHHELD] Kyushu, Japan...
...first contact on the enemy's ground provided a preview of the conquered's behavior under occupation. Two Lightning pilots from Okinawa set down unexpectedly on a Kyushu airfield to wait for a rescue plane carrying gas. Jap personnel at the field were courteous and co operative - and they treated the Americans as equals...