27th-30th June 1945
Delayed one day by the heavy bombing of Nagoya on the 26th, the Laurel party arrived in Tokyo on the night of the 27th for… Read More »27th-30th June 1945
Delayed one day by the heavy bombing of Nagoya on the 26th, the Laurel party arrived in Tokyo on the night of the 27th for… Read More »27th-30th June 1945
The third fundamental policy in Japan’s new pre-invasion structure (following the wartime emergency authority and the division of the empire into eight regions) was announced… Read More »25th June 1945
Just as my train was going to pull out of Tokyo station a railroad official came up to our crowded coach and shouted a command.… Read More »22nd 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
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
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