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Among the enemy aliens arrested in the recent Fill roundup was Shunske Tsurumi '43. Tsurumi, who went to Middlesex School for two years before coming to Harvard, paid his last visit to his home in Tokio, where his family is now living, last summer...
...Japan Grew was instrumental in smoothing the many difficulties that arose between Washington and Tokio, and helped prevent the rupture of relations until 1941. A polished figure of the formal and dignified type, he was accustomed to turning his one deat ear to the threats of the Japanese...
Wild reports in the headlines of the nation's presses about the air raids on Japanese cities creating panic among the Mikado's citizens are unfounded, according to Edwin O. Reischauer, Instructor in the Far Eastern Languages, of the Yenching Institute, who was born in Tokio, and has spent most of his life in the Far East...
...Reischauer asserted that in their large cities the Nipponese have instituted systems of fire-breaks consisting of parks, wide avenues, moats, rivers, canals, which would impede the progress of a fire such as the one accompanying the earthquake of 1923, which wiped out the greater part of Tokio...
Reischauer recalls that as early as 1937, air raid drills were carried on in Tokio and Yokahama, and that the raid wardens of the capital city were especially severe in enforcing blackouts. "I do not know of any country that has prepared so meticulosuly for raids," he stated