Word: yokosuka
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...jittery Japs got proof: four-engined bombers which they identified as B-29 Superfortresses droned in ones & twos over the Tokyo area. They dropped no bombs, and eventually the Japs figured it out: the big planes were on reconnaissance, looking-among other things-for crippled Jap ships in Yokosuka navy yard, where they might have fled from Mitscher's flyers a week earlier...
...been named to the soft berth of commandant, Yokosuka Naval Station. But soon General Tojo called upon him to take the Navy Ministry in the new War Cabinet. "The right man in the right place," said a s uperannuated Taisho (admiral...
...himself ahead with alternate fits of rebellion and unctuousness, in alternate shifts of deck and desk duty. He lost the hearing of his left ear in target practice, and quickly learned the political uses of deafness. In time he became chief of the big naval bases at Sasebo and Yokosuka, then Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleets. He was Navy Minister when Japan went to war, when the Navy let itself be sucked into the battle of Shanghai, when the Panay was bombed. He is said to have torpedoed an open military alliance with Germany last year with...
Last month an anonymous British cruiser fired across the bows of the Japanese liner Asama Maru, only 35 miles off Japan's naval base of Yokosuka. From the Asama Maru a British boarding party took 21 Germans, judged to be of military age and ability, returning from U. S. employment via Japan and Siberia to Germany (TIME, Jan. 29). These the British interned at Hong Kong. Japan fumed. Great Britain cited her rights under a convention of 1909 (never ratified) which says that persons liable to military service for an enemy may be removed by a belligerent from neutral...
Merchant Nato, realizing that he now knew too much to be safe from assassination if he refused to contribute, grudgingly gave 60,000 yen, prepared to sell short. Meanwhile the plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...