Word: shimonoseki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs assassinated seven Cabinet members. Japanese history is full of civil war, revolt, secret conspiracy, and disrespect for the Emperor. When Perry opened Japan the government's word was not enough to make Japan safe for foreigners. Disorders ended only after western ships bombarded Shimonoseki...
...wound up and pitched the biggest Superfort strike yet. Nearly 600 planes dropped 4,000 tons of fire bombs on four new targets in Kyushu and the toe of Honshu. The Japs could begin counting off Kure, greatest naval base on the Inland Sea; Ube, coal and magnesium center; Shimonoseki, seaport; Kumamoto, military and industrial city...