12th February 1945
A feeling of depression has overtaken the Japanese. Everyone expected Yamashita to do something big in honor of yesterday’s festival. Kigen-setsu, empire foundation day. But… Read More »12th February 1945
A feeling of depression has overtaken the Japanese. Everyone expected Yamashita to do something big in honor of yesterday’s festival. Kigen-setsu, empire foundation day. But… Read More »12th February 1945
I heard today a more complete version of the recent incident in the diet concerning “divine aid” and “divine punishment”. The original reminder, it seems,… Read More »11th February 1945
The Japanese were buoyant this morning. All the vernaculars have headlined a delphic boast from Yamashita: “The enemy is in my stomach.” It is, I… Read More »10th February 1945
The Japanese are blaming the Americans for the destruction of Manila. A Domei dispatch carried by the Mainichi today quotes the spokesman of the Japanese… Read More »9th February 1945
A heavy snowfall did not help to cheer us up. All of us were in a bitter mood. Vargas has definitely rejected the proposition that,… Read More »8th February 1945
The Japanese press has now been allowed to reveal that the United States army entered Manila on the 3rd and that fighting is now going… Read More »7th February 1945
The evacuation program is still meeting with difficulties. The Mainichi reports today that some of the evacuees are even returning to the cities, either because… Read More »6th February 1945
Kobe was raided yesterday by 100 B-29’s. She eight-day theory seems to be working. Manila’s fail was announced last night by San Francisco but the… Read More »5th February 1945
A warning went out today for a possible big raid, Someone has figured it out that the Americans come every eight days and they came… Read More »4th February 1945