Word: nippon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many prisoners, who had heard nothing but Jap propaganda for one to four years, most wanted updating on sports and movies. Some wanted to talk about ways to stop war. One group sighed with relief on learning that, contrary to a report in the Nippon Times, Deanna Durbin is still alive...
...suspension. Reason: Asahi had darkly suggested that "some people think [the] announcement of Japanese atrocities may be timed to offset the news about outrages committed by some American soldiers in Japan " (Japs have accused G.I.s of rape.) Next day MacArthur suspended for one day the English-language Nippon-Times...
Today we have eight TIME & LIFE men sending us daily reports from conquered Nippon. We have opened an office on the famous (and garish) Ginza, complete with two reception rooms the last tenant used for ceremonial tea drinking...
Japan's royal family had a busy week, informing ancestral ghosts of what the Nippon Times delicately referred to as "the termination of the war of Greater East Asia...
...nothing but contempt for the power politics which would use a strong and militaristic Japan as a bulwark against communism. In the same category, he places the Grew-inspired policy of catering to Hirohito "because he might turn out to be the sole stabilizing force" in a Nippon ruptured by defeat. Except, he says, for speeding the surrender (now accomplished), the U.S. cannot do business with the Emperor...