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
Reshaping the administrative structure of Japan to conform with the emergency and the new summary authority demanded by the emergency, Suzuki announced at the present… Read More »24th June 1945
Today the wartime emergency measure law went into effect. It was about time, if not too late. The vernaculars were speaking of “gradually mounting losses”… Read More »23rd 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
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