March 22, 1945 Thursday
At 7:25 a.m., the Japanese escort commander signaled us all to stop. The trucks were made to park under the trees and camouflaged with leafy… Read More »March 22, 1945 Thursday
At 7:25 a.m., the Japanese escort commander signaled us all to stop. The trucks were made to park under the trees and camouflaged with leafy… Read More »March 22, 1945 Thursday
The Times today carried two remarkable stories, both hand-outs of the military press corps. The first comes from Yiojima. “With the fighting on Yiojima reaching… Read More »21st March 1945
It is 6:30 p.m. We are ready for the journey. Everyone is tearful. It is very touching. The people we are leaving would have stayed… Read More »March 21, 1945 Wednesday
The train to Odawara was crowded with refugees and so was the neat little tourist tram to Miyanoshita. One young evacuee girl was making friends… Read More »20th March 1945
Our new friends repeatedly asked us if we had not feared that such human slaughter would occur; if we did not have any inkling that… Read More »March 20, 1945
The emperor visited the bombed areas of Tokyo yesterday. The newspapers were reverentially brief and circumspect in announcing the event. No one asked him how… Read More »19th March 1945
I have not written in almost four weeks. It seems like I have passed a terrible nightmare and have awakened in Barotac, where it is… Read More »March 19, 1945
We could scarcely believe our ears when we heard that we could order eggs from a Japanese acquaintance in the country for only 81 sen… Read More »18th March 1945
I visited Muntinlupa, the new prison site. Not a political or criminal prisoner was left. When the Americans were about to arrive, they were liquidated… Read More »March 18, 1945