Word: mitsubishis
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Osaka, which is Japan's No. 1 commercial city, grew naturally with the progressive expansionism of her hustling merchants. Nagoya, industrially the child of the Greater East Asia War, grew artificially, by military fiat. Fifty-five-year-old Junji Hattori, manager of a Mitsubishi plant in Nagoya, put it this way: "When the military sticks its nose into civilian affairs, it makes horrible mistakes. Look at us now-no money, no initiative, no incentive. I'm afraid Nagoya's flower has bloomed and withered. Whether new buds will appear, only time will tell...
...with his bows and headshakings is still something of a comic figure, his Japanese subjects now call him ochitsuite (poised-and-at-his-ease)-a high personal compliment. Hirohito's /ords are few, but well chosen and sometimes surprising. To union bosses at Nagasaki's big Mitsubishi heavy-industry plant, he said warningly, "Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children of the Catholic Holy Mother Orphanage at Omura, he admonished, "Work hard...
Matsui, the Mitsubishi and other great families which had built up an octopuslike control of industry, banking and trade-would be put out of action. Nobody was surprised when ex-Baron Mitsui and the others were forced to turn in their holdings for government bonds-frozen for ten years-and to live dourly on official allotments of $40 a month...
...house of Mitsubishi, almost as great, lost 60 to 70% of all of its manufacturing capacity. Of all the zaibatsu, Sumitomo emerged from the war in the best shape, losing only about 30% of its manufacturing capacity...
...fire raids on Nagoya tore a great swath through the center of Japan's third largest city and major aircraft production center. Two raids by more than 500 bombers each burned out nearly one-fourth of the city, hit the Mitsubishi Aircraft works (world's largest in area) and some 30 other military targets. At week's end B-29s turned on Hamamatsu, 60 miles southeast of Nagoya, to bomb more factories...