16th April 1945
Some of the people in the hotel who tried to go to Tokyo today had to turn back one station before Yokohama. Apparently rail communications… Read More »16th April 1945
Some of the people in the hotel who tried to go to Tokyo today had to turn back one station before Yokohama. Apparently rail communications… Read More »16th April 1945
As was to be expected, a Japanese newspaper (in this case the Mainichi) has brought up the inevitable “Roosevelt has died. It was heaven’s punishment.… Read More »15th April 1945
On my way back to Miyanoshita I walked past the now familiar landscape of ruin and chaos, all the way from the embassy on Kudan… Read More »14th April 1945
Friday the 13th: San Francisco radio flashed the news of President Roosevelt’s sudden death and for once Tokyo picked it up immediately: the bulletin was… Read More »13th April 1945
Our neighbor takes the Times although nobody in the house can read English because he wants the big four-page sheet of paper for wrapping or… Read More »12th April 1945
The diplomatic gasoline ration has been cut 60 per cent. The stocks are getting low with communications to the southern regions practically severed. But the… Read More »11th April 1945
Shigenori Togo was appointed minister for foreign and Greater East Asia affairs yesterday. Shigemitsu could not stay after the Soviet disaster. Togo, who has a… Read More »10th April 1945
With the cabinet almost complete and the ceremony of imperial investiture held Saturday night, Suzuki yesterday, Sunday, made his first radiocast as premier and gave… Read More »9th April 1945
After she first flurry over the cabinet change the press has had time to take up an even more significant development, the Soviet notice of… Read More »8th April 1945