Word: nagasaki
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...Japanese, who have always been good mimics (and want to be good democrats), were busily tilting at an old American folkway: the square dance. "Caller"* at an experimental hoedown in Nagasaki was Fred Niblo, an A.M.G. director who thought that a dash of do-se-do was just the thing for the community soul...
...year-old Miwo Murakawa, the "square American dance" was the biggest thing to hit Nagasaki since the atom bomb (which missed Miwo by just a mile). She quoted a farm woman: "Why have we had to wait for Americans to teach us such pleasures? Why have not the Japanese taught us such things...
...utterly loathsome picture. If I spoke as I feel I would call it obscene.... I only hope to God it isn't reprinted in Russia-to confirm everything the Soviet Government has been telling the Russian people. How would it seem in Hiroshima or Nagasaki to know that Americans make cakes of angel-food puffs in the image of that terrible diabolical thing. . . . Try to imagine yourself for a moment a continental European, wondering, brooding, asking yourself a hundred times a day, will America lead us? ... Then imagine yourself being shown this picture. If I had the authority...
...inspiring state religion-to proclaim democracy. Tokyo's famous Meiji shrine staged a three-day festival that included a tea ceremony and geisha dances, but at the same time the government began distribution of new "democratic" photographs of the Emperor, in civilian instead of military dress. Nagasaki residents held a snake dance and a poetry contest on the subject: "Reconstruction from the Atomic Bomb...
Footprints in Steel. All this and much more, still to be disclosed, had been wrought by a bomb of the same plutonium type as that used at Nagasaki, but less powerful. As it was, these proud vessels had been humbled...