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Word: yokohama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From their bases in Australia and Hawaii, from secret spots in the vast expanse of the Pacific, U.S. submarines range up to Hong Kong. The first sub sinking admitted by Japan (last January) was only 75 miles southeast of Yokohama. Some U.S. subs have penetrated Tokyo Bay to gather information on enemy fleet dispositions and to sink Jap merchantmen as they sailed, loaded, out of the harbor. Last month a French flyer who stole a 14-year-old biplane and escaped to Chungking from Indo-China reported that U.S. subs had made it so hot in that area that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: The Silent Service | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...patriot, whose name was Park Soowon, was shot full of holes by Japanese police, who in the process brought down the Japanese ace, Major Yuzo Fujita, and two Japanese photographers. Tokyo police succeeded in rounding up go-odd members of a Korean terrorist group that has been operating in Yokohama, Tokyo and Osaka, but, said Kilsoo Haan, "their number is legion, and they will continue to operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Straight to the Armpit | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Malaya, Java. Sumatra he got rubber; in Borneo he hastened repair of blown-up oil wells; from the Philippines and the erstwhile Dutch islands his diet was sweetened with sugar; from China he got cotton and high-grade bituminous coal. Japanese sources reported that in Java great Japanese banks (Yokohama Specie Bank, Bank of Taiwan) were already exceedingly active. The Jap's New Order in Asia was potentially one of the richest economic units in the world; already the Japanese felt heady enough to discourage use of the word Japan in favor of Nippon or Dai Nippon (Great Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: THE JAP AS BOSS-MAN | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

This time it was not U.S. bombers that made the earth tremble in Tokyo and Yokohama and set up far-glaring fires. More ancient was the enemy: Asamayama ("Mountain Without Bottom"), most fretful and dangerous of Japan's 50 active volcanoes. Seismologists had predicted that an ominously growing crust inside the cone threatened an eruption as violent as that of 1783, when 48 villages were buried deep beneath a scoriaceous lava stream. The word "catastrophe" in Axis news broadcasts indicated that what the seismologists feared may have occurred. But Allied nations were given no word of the damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Scorched Earth | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...crash of bombs and the frenetic hammer of U.S. machine guns. They saw it in the smoke rising from fires on the edge of Tokyo, third largest city of the world (pop. 6,581,000). They saw it in bomb wreckage in Tokyo's famed port of Yokohama, in their great airplane-manufacturing center at Nagoya (pop. 1,249,000), in Kobe (pop. 1,006,000), the Glasgow of Japan. They saw it in the flames from incendiaries that licked through the jerry-built, paper-structure houses where Japan's little men live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: Remember Pearl Harbor | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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