Word: yamato
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pupil in Negishi primary school, wrote: "At Tokyo zoo we can only see pigs and birds which give us no interest. It is a long cherished dream for Japanese children to see a large, charming elephant.. Can you imagine how we want to see the animal?" Said Masanori Yamato of Seisi grade school: "The elephant still lives with us in our dreams...
...second "rendered the militarists desperate." Among the results were assassinations of liberal statesmen in Tokyo and deliberate attacks on Americans in China, including the sinking of the river gunboat Panay in 1937. That was also the year that the Japanese navy laid down, in secret, the hulls of the Yamato and Musashi, 63,700-ton battleships. By 1941 the Japanese navy was "more powerful than the combined Allied Fleets in the Pacific." It was superior to the U.S. fleet, says Morison, in destroyers and torpedo design, and its carrier planes "Zeke" and "Kate" were to prove superior in the early...
...Japanese took a battleship of the Yamato class while still under construction, converted her to a carrier, named her the Shinano. At 59,000 tons, she was 14,000 tons larger than the Midway class, the U.S. Navy's mightiest...
...Premier T. V. Soong, during his negotiations with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin over the Sino-Soviet Treaty of last August, had asked that the Fushun Combine be excluded from joint ownership provisions; Stalin had agreed. What did Cheng intend to do about the Russians living in the Combine's Yamato Hotel and working in its main offices? "I'll just ignore them," said Cheng. "Fushun's Mayor Yung Ning Lou has instructed 22,000 Japanese workers not to take orders from the Russians, but only from me. In the future, the Russians may sit in their offices...
...main street of Mukden's former modern Japanese area is now "Stalin Prospect." The Yamato Hotel is "Hotel of the Intourist Travel Agency of Moscow, U.S.S.R." Near Mukden's railway station is a granite-mounted Red Army tank, a memorial to Russian soldiers. Russian and Chinese flags fly together everywhere, but there is little doubt which flag dominates...