Word: yokohama
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...procession sped across the bomb-scarred wasteland from Tokyo to Yokohama. Through his thick glasses Hirohito gazed on his country's devastation. Along the bumpy route his people-shabby, shivering, shambling-greeted their ruler's bizarre cavalcade with bewildered reverence...
Hirohito stepped stiffly from his car at the Showa Electrical Co. plant near Yokohama. Past officials and workers standing at attention with Sunday smiles, he pattered like a not-quite-recuperated invalid treading on eggshells. While functionaries droned through tedious reports, Hirohito clasped and unclasped his hands, shifted from foot to foot, blinked and nodded. When it was all over, he sighed, "Ah so." Then His Majesty wandered like a scared mouse through the maze of plant wreckage. Before one of the workers, lined up to get their first imperial glimpse, he paused nervously. "How long have you been working...
Meanwhile the Japanese people were making the most of their SCAP-sponsored freedom. In a holiday spirit, 500 workers of the Yokohama Wire Workers Union piled into trucks, drove to Tokyo to agitate for a 250% wage increase. Said one of them in clear but truncated English: "We won war. One year ago no could do this. Now we can shout and sing and strike. We really...
Technicians. A spokesman for Japanese civilians in China was suave Viscount Hisaakira Kano, an executive of the once powerful Yokohama Specie Bank and a leading carpetbagger of the late Co-Prosperity Sphere. In Peiping he talked to the New York Herald Tribune's A. T. Steele...
Prize criminal of the week: General Kenji Doihara, Japan's "Lawrence of Manchuria," a sinister intelligence operative and advance agent for Japan's Asiatic conquests. He drove into Yokohama in a limousine and surrendered...