Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young (36) Tokyo District Court Judge Yoshitada Yamaguchi was an honest man. When his wife pleaded with him to sell some clothes and family possessions to buy food on the black market, he replied: "How can one who judges others do any black marketing?" When his father sent extra food from Kyushu island, he turned it all over to his family. He and his wife subsisted, precariously, on thin soup and corn meal gruel. Their food rations went to their two young sons...
...Tokyo, Crown Prince Akihito, a young man of well-defined lineage, lost his great & good friend, Aka, a dog of questionable ancestry. Most likely explanation of the disappearance: dog meat is a staple item on the Japanese black market...
Last week, at the International War Crimes trial in Tokyo, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan asked onetime Imperial Adviser Marquis Koicho Kido: "Is it not a fact that from the beginning to the end of your political career, you consistently opposed any move by the Emperor to bring about law and order?" Marquis Kido nodded sublimely. "Yes," he answered through an interpreter. But his Western judges seemed to misunderstand. He explained that he had meant: "Yes, it is not a fact...
...dingy Tokyo office, Japan's first postwar deal in foreign trade was ceremoniously consummated last week. While klieg lights glared and cameras whirred, S. A. Stolaroff, vice president of New Orleans' United China & Glass Co., signed up for $62,000 worth of chinaware from several small Japanese companies...
...neat, new Tokyo Hotel and Hotel Teito, where the visiting traders were cordially welcomed by K. Nagai director of Boeki Cho, and A. B. Kram, chief of SCAP's foreign trade economic section, and handsomely housed, shabby little Japanese manufacturers eagerly crowded around businessmen, jotted down gripes about style and quality, hustled back to their factories to make what improvements they could. Another snag was the shortage of raw materials. Those who tried to supply them got no help from SCAP. Example: Gordon Behr, of Los Angeles' Yaras & Co., offered to ship enough coal from...