Word: takao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lindesay Parrott interviewed Takao Takatogawa in Tokyo: "His Government ration . . . consists only of rice, sweet potatoes and seaweed. . . . Because charcoal costs $4 a sack (half a month's rent), his wife and daughter have to go out into the country and pick up sticks to burn. . . . 'The next winter is more worrisome to me [than the next war],' he says...
Progressive Party leader Takao Saito reminded the flattered conquerors that the Emperor's powers had in practice always been nominal. No matter what the Constitution said about sovereignty or disarmament, jingoist leaders might be able to capture the substance of power again...
...cargo carriers and escort craft were being bombed and strafed from Indo-China to the Ryukyus. Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet carriers (16, by enemy count) sent planes up & down the coast and the island chain. They hammered Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy and Canton in China; Takao on Formosa; Okinawa in the Ryukyus. Primarily, their job was to keep the Japs from flying planes or shipping supplies and reinforcements to Luzon. Also, if an enemy naval force should appear, Halsey would be ready...
Tokyo radio said that Liberators on another raid had headed for Japan; "impenetrable defenses" turned them back. On the way home, according to the Japs, the Americans bombed the island of Formosa "for propaganda purposes." Actual target: an aluminum plant at Takao...
Last week the Diet told Takao Saito to resign. Commentators considered it most important to note that despite Japan's internal crisis, the Army still had so much influence. But far more important was what the tipsters were saying: Saito is out but not down. He will almost certainly be re-elected in 1941. And then defiant Lord Mouse is expected to show that the cat has not got his tongue...