Word: yokohama
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There, in Yokohama's Chinatown, The Viper ran a restaurant, picked up a few more yen by teaching Spanish and Filipino dialects at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Under the tutelage of hoary old Mitsuru Toyama, founder of Japan's fabulous Black Dragon Society, The Viper organized Kapatiran Anak Ng Bayan, a secret society whose aim was to foment uprisings in the Philippines...
Once only, The Viper broke his vow. In Tokyo's great earthquake of 1923, he whimpered himself on to a U.S. warship anchored off Yokohama...
...American prisoners from Wake Island arrived in Yokohama yesterday. They had a very sad expression on their faces, but they are admiring the Bushido treatment* they received on the boat from the Japanese. They are grateful for the accommodations given to them in the way of hospitalization. At the beginning they could not eat Japanese pickles, but after trying a few they have taken a liking to them. . . . During their voyage they displayed their typical American individualism, but the Japanese trained them to be more cooperative. ... On the boat, the Japanese exerted every effort to thrash out American individualism...
...knock the Japs right into the laps of the Nazis. . . . They'll hear the beat of a million feet of people who'd rather fight than eat, And here we come, here we come. I'd hate to be in Yokohama when our bombers make a bow For we'll knock the Japs right into the laps of the Nazis...
...Yokohama, Japan's greatest seaport, rusted under blockade, with whole streets deserted, warehouses and offices closed. Gasoline was no longer available to civilians; travelers' luggage was hauled from Yokohama to Tokyo by bicycle and oxcart...