Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fumio Tanaka and Shosuke Matsumoto, both 24 and friends since boyhood, attended the same high school, fought with the Japanese forces, and are now completing their economic studies at Tokyo's Keio University. Their common background even includes the purge of both their fathers: Tanaka's because he was a wartime cabinet member, Matsu-moto's as a general. However, young Tanaka is a conservative, young Matsumoto a Communist. They typify the two vigorous parties in Japan-and the way Japanese youth is torn...
...Tokyo suburb one day last week, near the spot where a sabotaged railroad train had just killed six people, a ramshackle automobile flying a tattered red Rising Sun flag drew up with a screech of brakes. Like the celebrated clown act in the Ringling Bros, circus, nearly a dozen reporters and photographers poured out of the jampacked car. After hastily pitching a brown tent by the roadside as a temporary city room, the journalistic task force spread out to hunt for clues. Asahi (Rising Sun), the Far East's biggest and best newspaper, was out to crack the crime...
...Later in the war, in a copy of TIME that reached Japan via neutral Stockholm, Iva first learned of the G.I. nickname "Tokyo Rose"-or so she says...
...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...
Throwing around the name of Nozaka's good friend Mao Tse-tung has been even more effective. With Japan's recovery vitally dependent on China trade, certain businessmen have seen fit to invite Red leaders to Tokyo's swank Industry Club. Osaka manufacturers have formed a Marxist study group and are contributing to party coffers. Out in public, Communist orators shout that China shows Asia's "wave of the future." Party organ Akahata, riding the wave, claims that China trade would gain Japan commercial independence (from the U.S.) and would help overthrow the Yoshida government...