Word: yokosuka
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...glass, he saw a sandy coastline, a haze-covered mountain range and, dead ahead, the unmistakable shape of Oregon's Cape Blanco lighthouse. The time was dawn on Sept. 9, 1942, and the sub was the 1,950-ton Japanese 1-25, on station 25 days after leaving Yokosuka...
Died. Soemu Toyoda, 72, fat, chauvinistic wartime Japanese admiral, chief of the Naval General Staff when Japan surrendered, onetime (1943) commandant of Japan's Yokosuka naval base; of a heart attack; in Tokyo...
...look at the barroom quintet and decided he saw four Japanese Communists all set to kill an American Army sergeant. Merten, a Korea veteran subject to "Bolshephobia" (i.e., seeing Red) when liquored up, fired five wavering revolver shots. Shiro Takawa, 19, no Communist but simply another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable." Judge Minoru Kamiizumi agreed, set Merten free because...
...foreign jails-including 38 for robbery, larceny and related offenses, 18 for aggravated assault and related offenses, eight for murder and manslaughter. And in jail as well as in the courthouse, allied officials make a practice of going to extraordinary lengths to favor the U.S. In Japan's Yokosuka prison, for example, 36 Americans are serving Japanese sentences of from three to 15 years for robbery, rape, manslaughter or murder. They get special food, vocational training, athletic equipment, a 900-volume library, armed-forces network radio, etc.; even the two murderers stand an excellent chance, say the U.S. officers...
...good luck, U.S. Navy radiomen had picked up a message about Oyama's plight. The Navy's headquarters at Yokosuka ordered the nearest submarine rescue ship, the Coucal, to Oyama's aid. The Coucal clipped four hours off her estimated time on a flank-speed, 500-mile run to Nagasaki. It took the sorely tried Oyama aboard, and doctors went with him into the sub's decompression chamber. He spent 38 hours there and breathed a mixture of helium and oxygen to help flush out the nitrogen. At the end, Oyama could stand shakily...