Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Jan. 30 Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, 21, fired an empty cartridge case from a grenade launcher to scare off several Japanese who were scavenging for metal on a U.S. rifle range near Tokyo; he struck one woman in the back and killed her (TIME, May 27). The Army insisted that Girard fired while on duty (technically he was guarding a machine gun between target practice sessions) and was therefore subject to the primary jurisdiction of U.S. military courts under the status-of-forces agreement. The Japanese held that because Girard did not fire during official exercise...
...Remember Pearl Harbor!" "For the sake of good relations between Japan and America we shall conduct a fair trial," said the Japanese chief district justice slated to try Girard. But the voice of Tokyo was soon drowned out by the growing uproar in the U.S. "Sold down the river," cried the Veterans of Foreign Wars; TO THE WOLVES, SOLDIER, cried the New York Daily News. In Girard's home town, Ottawa, Ill. (he lived there in the family trailer one year before enlisting in 1953) relatives and friends got up a 182-ft. petition protesting "a clear violation...
After these talks, Dean Francis Keppel of the School of Education will present the annual Ames Awards to Tatsuo Arima, of Adams House and Tokyo, and Peter K. Gunness, of Winthrop House and Fargo...
...Japan was threatening Australia, and her ships scouted with impunity around the Indian Ocean and Ceylon. The U.S., a long way yet from the glory days of island landings, had to latch on to the one little triumph of Jimmy Doolittle's 30 seconds over Tokyo...
...that without naval air power Yamamoto had lost the battle, and as early as 0255 on June 5 he put out the famous order-"The Midway Operation is canceled"-that reversed a tide of war that would now roll back through Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa to Tokyo...