28th of July
Tokyo’s dreamful lull did not last long. This morning about 240 P-51’s, led by several B-29’s, raided the Kanto district while some 600 carrier-borne planes… Read More »28th of July
Tokyo’s dreamful lull did not last long. This morning about 240 P-51’s, led by several B-29’s, raided the Kanto district while some 600 carrier-borne planes… Read More »28th of July
It was a lovely day in Tokyo today; the sky was a limpid blue, bright and lively with clear sunlight. It was cool for July;… Read More »27th of July, 1945
The Japanese learned “with trepidation” today that while the American task force is searing the imperial land with fire and steel, the emperor “is graciously… Read More »26th July, 1945
For two weeks now the amazing American task force has raged like a typhoon along the Pacific coast of the Japanese homeland; yesterday it struck… Read More »25th July, 1945
Near midnight on the 22nd a Japanese convoy moving under heavy rainclouds suddenly it came upon eight American destroyers about 20 kilometers off the southern… Read More »24th July, 1945
The railway volunteer fighting corps will be formally organized on the 1st of next month.
Sights in the mountain resort of Gora: A Japanese sporting a buckle labeled “Philippine Commonwealth”; A Japanese boy playing with a model airplane but this… Read More »22nd July, 1945
Why do the Japanese continue to fight? They are tired and hungry; the Tokyo Shimbun urges all Japanese to “learn to eat weeds”. Yet if… Read More »6th July 1945
“Hate the enemy!” cries an editorial in the Mainichi today. Under this startling title the vernacular points out: “Enemy air attacks on medium-sized cities are… Read More »5th July 1945