7th 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
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
About 400 B-29’s carried out another concentrated daylight raid yesterday, this time on Osaka, and the Times feels compelled this morning to write: “The enemy’s… Read More »2nd June 1945
The authorities are going [illegible] about the effect of the propaganda pamphlets dropped on Tokyo and Yokahama. “The contents of the leaflets,” cries the Asahi… Read More »1st June 1945
The trains were running to Tokyo again and I had an opportunity to see for myself what remained of Yokohama. Once more I was reminded… Read More »31st May 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
A German fleeing from Yokohama by car arrived in Miyanoshita gibbering with hysteria. From what we could make out Yokohama had been wiped out in… Read More »29th May 1945