Word: kyushu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon of Aug. 10, 1945, Osamu Satano's superior officers took him to an open field near the Fukuoka crematory in northern Kyushu. There Satano had to "volunteer" to behead a captured U.S. B-29 airman. After he had swung the executioner's sword, Satano watched one of his officers torture another prisoner to death by shooting arrows...
...Japanese doubted that Asahi would succeed. Only five months ago, when escaped War Criminal Shigeyoshi Ikeda had managed to elude all official efforts to recapture him, another Asahi task force tracked him down in less than a week at his hiding place on a remote island off southern Kyushu. This saturation system of covering the news (Asahi has a staff of 1,374 reporters, 4,066 other employees) is one of the reasons why yo-year-old Asahi (circ. 3,610,209) has an even bigger audience than the New York Daily News (circ. 2,254,644), the biggest paper...
Since his nation's surrender in 1945, Emperor Hirohito has been shifting from a divine to a human monarch. In his new role, the ex-god makes frequent tours among his people. Last week, as Hirohito visited the southern island of Kyushu, the changed relationship between the ruler and the ruled became increasingly and significantly apparent. Cabled TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney...
Both Emperor and people enjoy the new freedom. Hirohito chafes at remaining restrictions. At Unzen, Kyushu's beautiful mountain resort, he spotted an odd type of moss growth in a pond. Botanist Hirohito began to wade in after it. His chamberlain tried to restrain him; it was too dangerous. But by this time Japanese photographers had jumped into the pond to take pictures of the Emperor at its edge. "If it isn't dangerous for them," protested Hirohito, "why is it dangerous for me?" Sighed the chamberlain: "If Your Majesty can find a newspaperman's armband...
...Ferment. Japan last week scarcely looked like the proper setting for such portentous words. The cherry blossoms were advancing northward through the islands. The first white buds had appeared at Kagoshima, Japan's southernmost and warmest port. Slowly they had taken all of Kyushu Island and, crossing the narrow straits, had established a beachhead on the rocky coast of Honshu. The blossoms last week sprouted near the Kure dockyards and on a thousand drowsy islands dotting the Inland...