Word: shimoyama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under orders from SCAP to balance its budget, the Japanese government had decided to raise taxes, end subsidies to manufacturers and fire 270,000 government employees. To Sadanori Shimoyama, president of the Japanese National Railways Corp., fell the job of starting off the mass dismissals. Shimoyama joked with friends: "With these kubikiri [dismissals -literally, "neck cuttings"], I may get it in the neck myself...
...Communist-led railway union said that it would fight the firings "to the end." Angry workmen loosened switches, cut wires and attempted train derailments. One rain-soaked night last week, Shimoyama's body, with one arm and both legs cut off, was found lying across the tracks in Tokyo's Adachi ward...
Communist Nozaka, riding out the storm raised by Shimoyama's murder, was happy last week with the quiet intensity of a zealot who feels his vision taking form. Said he: "This summer will see the first wave of the crisis in Japan...
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