Word: nippon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squad of MPs, descended on the printing plant, where presses were rolling off the last of an edition of 50,000. He ordered the presses stopped. Trains were held up until papers already loaded could be removed. When the last copies of the offending editorial had been burned, the Nippon Times went to press again...
...stiff-necked, German-born G-2 officer Brigadier General Charles A. Willoughby (who changed his name from Von Tscheppe-Weidenbach) sat in his Dai Ichi Building office late one night, scanning proofsheets of the English-language Nippon Times, his eye lit on an editorial reprinted from the Tokyo daily Jiji Shimpo. "Japanese teachers," he read, "have the habit of blind worship for . . . the man in power. . . . They used to endeavor to instill in the minds of their pupils that the Emperor was God. Now they claim that General MacArthur is the Savior.. .. Until the Japanese are cleansed of this...
...Great Dictator" of another, gentler age was presented to the subject of its satire-Japan. Last week, for the first time, Dai Nippon saw a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. The historic performance took place in bombed Tokyo's Ernie Pyle Theater. The Japanese in the audience laughed heartily...
...little Japanese Presbyterian with a broad smile and bad eyesight toured the U.S. in 1936, speaking to packed halls on Christianity and consumer cooperatives. For the hundreds of thousands who heard him, Toyohiko Kagawa sounded like a saintly social worker and symbolized the best of Christianized Nippon...
Next day the Nippon show was closed. Diet Member Ishida was on the carpet at Allied Headquarters. Said he: the songs might have been "a little careless . . . but words of advice and warning must be given to Japanese girls...