Word: yokohama
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...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...
...Yokohama, Japan...
...From Yokohama to Nagasaki, Japanese last week hummed, whistled and sang Ringo No Uta (The Song of the Apple). It was Japan's first big sentimental song hit since 1941, when Japanese music went martial. Tokyo's radio station JOAK got 100 requests a day for it. It had sold 200,000 phonograph records and 50,000 copies of sheet music, and would have sold more if its publishers had had the materials. Even G.I.s hummed it. Apple's lyrics, translated...
Random Harvest. In Yokohama, a sentry spotted two Japs in a forbidden area, fired in warning, cut the power line to a Red Cross doughnut factory, ruined 56,000 doughnuts...
...Treat the Press. On the roof of a Yokohama office building, the Emperor blinked out over the devastated city, peered at the harbor through binoculars. American photographers surrounded him. As he prepared to leave, I started for the staircase. Somehow the Emperor, got there at the same moment. I backed off. Hirohito backed off. I said "Dozo" ("Please"). After a second we both started again and then checked. A worried aide bowed and extended a gloved hand toward the stairs. "No, I cannot go in front of the Emperor," I said. Hirohito deadpanned...