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...Pacific island of Guam, two fishermen last week pounced on a ragged, furtive little man whom they had spotted tending a fish trap in the Talofofo River, and turned him over to the police for questioning. To his incredulous interrogators, the man announced that he was Shoichi Yokoi, 56, a sergeant in the 38th Infantry Regiment of the old Japanese Imperial Army. He had been hiding out in the jungles of Guam since U.S. forces recaptured the island during a month-long siege in the summer of 1944. From a leaflet that he found one day, Yokoi had known...
...Yokoi said in part: Before the great war between China and Japan in 1894, the popular belief of all white people was that the yellow people were a very inferior race, who could be dealt with as they pleased. The outcome of this war has changed this opinion of supreme contempt to one of respect, and in some cases even of fear, for in some minds the fear of a great Mongolian invasion immediately arose...
Last night, in Harvard 1, Mr. Tokiwo Yokoi, of New Haven, gave a lecture under the auspices of the Harvard Pedagogical Club on "The Problems of Civilization in Japan...
...Tokiwo Yokoi of New Haven will deliver a lecture before the Harvard Pedagogical Club on "The Progress of Civilization in Japan," in Harvard 1 this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Yokoi has made a special study of this question, and has already presented one phase of it in an article on "The Ethical Life and Conceptions of the Japanese," in the International Journal of Ethics for last January. The lecture will be open to the public...
...Yokoi of New Haven will deliver a lecture on "The Progress of Civilization in Japan," before the Harvard Pedagogical Club on Thursday, May 7, at 7.30 p. m., in Harvard 1. Mr. Yokoi is a Japanese of unusually liberal views on religion, education and government. During the past few years he has studied at American universities, and has travelled extensively through the country as a student of American institutions. In the course of his residence here he has gained a thorough mastery of the English language. As he has made a special study of the subject on which...