21st June 1945
As a “new offensive” was launched by the Americans on Okinawa, the Asahi noted with a hint of panic that the Americans are now bombing… Read More »21st June 1945
As a “new offensive” was launched by the Americans on Okinawa, the Asahi noted with a hint of panic that the Americans are now bombing… Read More »21st June 1945
Without comment the papers today quoted the Guam radio on the death of Lieutenant-General Simon B. Buckner on Okinawa. Tonight Vargas had dinner with an… Read More »20th June 1945
A Filipino and an Indonesian working for the Japanese board of information have been living for some time in a house furnished to them by… Read More »19th June 1945
The Asahi today carried a significant article which confessed the bankruptcy of a fundamental policy in Japanese diplomacy. There is no longer much hope, the… Read More »18th 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