2nd 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
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 new national volunteer corps,” explains the Times today, “has as its prime aim the reorganizing and propelling of the normal activities of the people… Read More »20th May
Language has its subtle treacheries and they are probably nowhere more plentiful than in the ordinary translation from Japanese into English. This morning’s Times carries… Read More »9th May 1945
For the past four days the Japanese government and press have mourned for Hitler and his Reich, Mussolini and his Republic. In the afternoon of… Read More »7th May 1945
The Times today publishes in translation the letter of a Japanese mother, written to a lieutenant in the Shimbu unit of the special attack corps… Read More »4th May 1945
Commenting on the “war precepts” issued to the imperial forces, the Times notes that the fifth calls on them to assume the leadership of the… Read More »22nd April 1945
The Mainichi today carries more “last words” from suicide pilots: “Although the expression ‘shichisho hokoku’ (firm resolve to serve the nation by being born seven… Read More »18th 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
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