Word: tamura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handsomest boy I ever saw," recalls Jiro Tamura, a former Japanese army captain. On that morning, just 24 hours after the atomic bomb fell, Tamura was combing the city in search of his wife (he never found her). At the eastern end of the Aioi Bridge, almost directly beneath the flash point of the bomb, he saw an old woman hurling pieces of concrete at the captive and screaming, "You Yankee devil!" When Tamura returned in the afternoon, the American was dead, chunks of concrete strewn around his battered body...
...sets of dog tags that had been taken from U.S. prisoners of war who were in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. In the confusion of postwar Japan, their deaths were never publicly acknowledged. Most were captured airmen, and most doubtless died in the first shock wave. But Eyewitness Tamura clearly recalls seeing the bodies of two American P.O.W.s who had been beaten to death, apparently with rifle butts, by their military captors...
...Tora! Tora! Tora!* is a refreshing reversal. The Americans tend to blend into an indistinguishable potbellied mob. It is the Orientals who are individuals. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura) is Eskimo-like in appearance, stoical in practice, goaded by an affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when the bombs fell, is the same shrunken cipher who appeared in all the newsreels. It is he who bears the verbal assault delivered by Cordell Hull, played by George Macready...