Word: yokohama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decrepit little wooden house between Tokyo and Yokohama lives a very old man with eyes like flashlight sockets, jaws still strong, a ragged white beard which fails to make him look saintly. His name, Mitsuru Toyama, is seldom spoken. At 85 he is the most feared man in the Far East. Last week he was tolerably happy, for things were going...
...Airways runs regularly, twice a week, flies to Seattle in seven hours. The special importance of this fact is that this part of Alaska also lies along the route that any Oriental invader would naturally take in approaching the U. S. A ship following a great-circle course from Yokohama to San Francisco passes within 300 miles of the Aleutian Islands. The seemingly shorter route via Hawaii is 1,100 miles longer. So an invader intending to attack the west coast of the U. S. would find it a great advantage to snaffle Alaska and use it as an advance...
...were keen. Dr. Kung allotted $2,000,000 (Chinese), promised $3,000,000 more. On Aug. 5, 1938, the leaders met and constituted themselves as a central committee of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. Fittingly this economic defense against Japanese penetration was born in the commandeered building of the Yokohama Specie Bank in Hankow...
...widely they patrol the Seven Seas the British demonstrated last week when one of their cruisers (her name painted out) slid up to the Japanese liner Asama Maru, homeward bound from San Francisco, just as she raised land off Yokohama. A shot over his bows was needed to make the Japanese captain stop. Three British officers and nine seamen went aboard. They had a list of German passengers on the Asama Maru, whose passports they proceeded to check. One German hid in the ship's false funnel, another in a barrel, but the boarding party seized and removed...