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...Okayama peddler of dried chestnuts and cereals, Kuniyoshi got his first glimpse of the U.S. through the prosperous-looking tourists who came into town. When the time came for him to be called up into the imperial army, he decided that the U.S. was where he wanted to be. His father managed to scrape together $200 for him, but Kuniyoshi was so confident about the land of opportunity that just after he landed in Seattle in 1906 he sent all but $50 back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: America with a Lilt | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...Recently it has been very difficult for shoemakers or shoe-repairmen to obtain leather for repair. In Okayama Prefecture a shoe-repairman noticed that a cuttlefish is shaped much like the sole of a shoe. He painted in black ink on dry cuttlefish and used them as shoe soles." (Price of dry cuttlefish: 7 to 10 yen; cost of shoe-repairing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Puss in Boots | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

China-based B295 did their best job of precision bombing on an aircraft factory at Okayama, Formosa. Lanky, blond Brigadier General Lauris Norstad, Twentieth Air Force Chief of Staff, judged this job better than any he had seen in Europe: 35 or 36 buildings that comprised this factory "just aren't there any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Target Japan | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...week's end, in a skillfully integrated attack, the largest force of B-29 Superfortresses yet sent on an attack (well over 100) swept out from their bases around Chengtu in western China. They followed two flights of navy planes over Formosa's greatest arsenal at Okayama. Two days later, they returned to strike again. In all, only two B-29s were lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Halsey in the Empire | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...pine coffin dictated by Japanese custom, lay in the hall of his official residence where he was shot down, while 500 officials, including representatives of all parties, paid their formal respects, pronounced fulsome eulogies. That evening the body was cremated. Next day part of the ashes were sent to Okayama, the rest interred at Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pine Coffin | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

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