11th-15th 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
“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
Yokohama was hit by 500 B-29’s accompanied by some 100 P-51’s, according to the official communique. They worked on the city for barely an hour… Read More »30th May 1945
“The decisive battle in the Okinawas has become all the more fierce,” warns the Asahi, “The battle on land has shifted to Maha and Shuri… Read More »21st May
About 400 B-29’s raided Nagoya yesterday, “for the first time dropping incendiaries on a large scale in the daytime”, while 300 carrier-borne planes were raking… Read More »15th May 1945
As the last breached wall of Hitler’s Reich crumbled and collapsed, Japan peered through the choking cloud of rumor, report, glimmering hope and thickening despair… Read More »10th May 1945
Language has its subtle treacheries and they are probably nowhere more plentiful than in the ordinary translation from Japanese into English. This morning’s Times carries… Read More »9th May 1945
For the past four days the Japanese government and press have mourned for Hitler and his Reich, Mussolini and his Republic. In the afternoon of… Read More »7th May 1945
Amid rumors of Germany’s unconditional surrender, the board of information yesterday announced that on the 27th April the prime minister and the highest army and… Read More »30th April 1945
The ambassadors’ conference failed to divert the Japanese from the realities of the war. While looking forward “with the keenest concern and breathless interest” to… Read More »24th April 1945