Word: masaharu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese had a top-flight commander, bulky, 54-year-old General Masaharu Homma, who for 15 months had been training troops in Formosa for this job. He had an estimated 200,000 troops to work with. He did the obvious thing. At many points along the coast he put down landing parties to work their way across the coastal flats into the hills behind the U.S. main line of resistance. But the Jap also swarmed along the cliffs on MacArthur's left flank, with bombs and shells and rifle fire forced the U.S.-Philippine defenders to give ground...
Nevertheless "a sword of Damocles," as the Tokyo Asahi said, "was raised over Japan's head." The country reacted, as always under pressure, with threats and recriminations. Commander Masaharu Homma of the Tientsin Garrison, an old hand at talking out of turn, warned that the Japanese Army might have to "reconsider appropriate steps." Japan's Army spokesman told a fantastic cock-&-buller about a Chinese plot against the life of U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson. The Japanese press said it was time to stop "courting favor" with the U. S. In private, statesmen loudly complained...