29th March 1945
The foreign office has asked for the return of all diplomatic travel permits. They are to be curtailed. Waiting for a train connection I sat… Read More »29th March 1945
The foreign office has asked for the return of all diplomatic travel permits. They are to be curtailed. Waiting for a train connection I sat… Read More »29th March 1945
After treating the American operations in the so-called southwest islands as a passing raid, imperial headquarters has now announced an actual landing on the Okinawa… Read More »28th March 1945
The forcible “spacing” of houses has now extended to the vicinity of my colleagues’ house in Yotsuya. Their place was saved from condemnation and destruction… Read More »27th March 1945
While the Asahi revealed that an American fleet had bombarded the Ryukyu islands on the 23rd and launched heavy raids on Okinawa in particular on… Read More »26th March 1945
Returning to Tokyo we passed household after household on the move, aboard trucks, ox-carts, bicycle trailers. One truck provided a typical Japanese note: on top… Read More »25th March 1945
Let no one say afterward that the Japanese did not know what was coming. After Saipan, Yiojima; after Yiojima, Okinawa; at least that is the… Read More »24th March 1945
Saipan led to Yiojima and Yiojima may lead to the mainland, warned the Mainichi today. Apparently in preparation for invasion the vice-minister officer, Shibayama, in… Read More »23rd March 1945
In a communique dated noon yesterday imperial general headquarters announced the loss of Yiojima. The announcement quoted the last telegram from the garrison: “All the… Read More »22nd March 1945
The Times today carried two remarkable stories, both hand-outs of the military press corps. The first comes from Yiojima. “With the fighting on Yiojima reaching… Read More »21st March 1945