9th 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
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
There was quite a heavy downpour today. A French brother laughed after Mass: “It’s a hailstorm. But now it is no longer Heil Hitler but… Read More »6th May 1945
About 800 families, who were burnt out in the last raid on Tokyo, have set up housekeeping in their air-raid shelters, reports the Times. A… Read More »5th May 1945
The Times today publishes in translation the letter of a Japanese mother, written to a lieutenant in the Shimbu unit of the special attack corps… Read More »4th May 1945
“Is it true that Hitler has been killed?” asked our maid this morning. I told her that it was only a rumor but that it… Read More »3rd May 1945
There was more than the usual touch of unreality to the business at the chancery when a telegram was received conveying greetings on the occasion… Read More »2nd May 1945
Today the Mainichi brought the first reaction to the surrender of Germany. “In the supposition that this report is true,” the paper writes the following… Read More »1st 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