Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because of the coal shortage and a great drought all through 1939, electric power was so acutely inadequate that in some places (notably industrial Osaka) a 30% cut in consumption was ordered. Osaka was under virtual blackout. Most light industries were entirely shut down, and even war industries were last week being rationed...
PARIS--Premier Edouard Daladier, in an exclusive interview with the Osaka Mainichi tonight, revealed that French military preparations envisage a "massive German attack with all forces," this spring, that France and Japan are preparing to open negotiations for French recognition of Manchukuo and that the French government views Russian Bolshevism and German Nazlism as essentially the same thing, comparable to cholera or the plague...