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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SURRENDER: Onto the Sacred Soil | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...dropped on Hiroshima; in ways that could not be revealed, it was also, said Army & Navy officers, so much of an improvement that the first bomb was obsolete. It exploded on or near the ground, blasted a ghastly crater. It destroyed only one square mile of the Kyushu seaport, but spokesmen said that it had been more devastating than the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: My God! | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

There was no such letup at Okinawa, dearly bought eyrie of the Far East Air Forces. General George C. Kenney sent B-24s to burn Kurume, on Kyushu Island; later waves turned aside to secondary targets near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: To the Bitter End | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Somehow, after an indeterminate confinement, perhaps at forced labor to repair some of the damage they had wrought, these millions who had swarmed out like locusts must be shipped home-and somehow squeezed into teeming Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido. Not one of the countries which they had plagued would keep them a day longer than necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: The Locusts | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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