17th June 1945
A Chinese diplomat who has spent a long time in Japan told me today an interesting species of mild sabotage in which he has long… Read More »17th June 1945
A Chinese diplomat who has spent a long time in Japan told me today an interesting species of mild sabotage in which he has long… Read More »17th June 1945
“As the earth hardens in the rain, so also the government and the people have grown more united,” wrote the Asahi. It was a rain… Read More »11th-15th June 1945
The child in the streetcar kept staring at me and my clothes. Finally he pulled at his mother’s sleeve. “Mother,” he said, pointing at me.… Read More »10th June 1945
On the train to Odawara I listened to an old man and an old woman, who happened to be seatmates, strike up a conversation. They… Read More »9th June 1945
Osaka was hit by 250 B-29’s yesterday morning; two days before, about 350 had pounded the city of Kobe. The raids were far away and… Read More »8th June 1945
When I heard by accident that one of our students, the only one we had in the north of Japan, had “disappeared”, I hurried to… Read More »7th June 1945
There is a general expectation that the change in the imperial Household ministry is only the forerunner of more extensive changes, possibly the fall of… Read More »6th June 1945
The minister of the imperial household, Marquis Tsuneo Matsudaira, resigned after more than nine years in office yesterday “assuming responsibility for the burning of the… Read More »5th June 1945
Roaming in the second-hand bookshops still in Kanda I found in nearly everyone a shelf of dictionaries: Nippongo-Burmese, Nippongo-Thai, Nippongo-Tagalog, Nippongo-Malay. Nobody was buying these… Read More »4th June 1945