Word: shigeru
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hiroshima's Acting Governor Shigeru Kojo peered through tortoise-shell glasses and smiled through gold-capped teeth at the U.S. newsmen. They had come to a special press conference to hear a special plea: would it not be a splendid gesture if America helped rebuild the first city leveled by an atomic bomb...
...Thus rebuilt," said Shigeru Kojo, "Hiroshima will be an international symbol of humanity and peace . . . the cradle of a peace-loving, reconstructed Japan...
Emperor Hirohito, the living god and archpriest of Shinto, will soon embrace Christianity. This startling prediction was made last week by staid Professor Shigeru Nambara, president of Tokyo's Imperial University. Ever since their defeat, the Emperor and all his imperial household have been seriously studying Christian theology...