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Word: yokohama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yokohama, for more than two years, the U.S. Eighth Army has been operating a criminal court system almost twice as large as New York City's-and much more than twice as ugly, for most of its Class B and C defendantsts† are Japanese officers and men charged with torture, brutality, head-choppings and assorted sadism under the guise of war. Last week, more than 500 cases had been disposed of and there were some 250 still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: For God's Sake! | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...with his new bride to the U.S. "Friends of the family," reported the New York Times later, "said that [George's father] disapproved the union." Whatever the reason, the newlyweds cut short their visit to Newport, and after a brief spell in New York, divided their lives between Yokohama and Europe's capitals. Twelve years later, in 1915, George Morgan dropped dead in Seville, leaving his widow an estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Madame O-Yuki | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Married. Teruko Pia Kurusu, 21, daughter of Japan's special "peace" envoy to Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, and Frank White, 27, ex-U.S. Army recreation officer, now a civilian employed by MacArthur's headquarters; in Yokohama, in a ceremony attended by neither her father nor her New York-born Caucasian mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 25, 1947 | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Ozone & Indigestion. Nowhere will going ashore be the fun it used to be. In Honolulu, food is scarce, as are rooms in the newly reopened Royal Hawaiian Hotel (on famed Waikiki Beach); auto rental rates are $30 for the first day, $20 for each day thereafter. Yokohama and Kobe are cities of beaten peoples, littered streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Deck Chairs Ahoy! | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...Atami is a resort town near Yokohama where, according to Terry's Guide to the Japanese Empire, "certain of the spots are so extraordinarily romantic that they lure one to suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Blues | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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