The American reply to Japan's peace offer has been announced by San Francisco. Delivered yesterday the 12th it demands that the authority of the emperor and the Japanese government be subject to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, presumably General of the Army McArthur. The question is more alive than ever: will the Japanese..
Read more9th August 1945
As San Francisco announced that the second "atomic" bomb had been dropped on Nagasaki shortly before noon, the vernaculars started to open up a little on the subject. It seems that "the authorities of the various government departments concerned have dispatched officials to the scene of destruction." "According to a survey made, the new-type bomb..
Read more7th August 1945
The San Francisco radio announced today that a new "atomic" bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima yesterday the 6th, wiping out 60 per cent of the city at one blow. Apparently the bomb is built on an entirely new principle, the splitting of the U-235 atom. From another viewpoint, the principle is as old as..
Read moreAugust 2, 1945, Thursday
We began a Novena to San Judas Tadeo, my wife's favorite saint. She used to go to the Cathedral to pray before the saint. Paredes is the leader. He also has been going to confession. We were wondering whether he had left the Masonry in which he was an ex-grand Master and one of the..
Read more13th 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 on the air by noon. The Japanese and I talked to did not seem unduly elated; they know by now that nothing would affect the prosecution of the war by the..
Read more9th February 1945
The Japanese are blaming the Americans for the destruction of Manila. A Domei dispatch carried by the Mainichi today quotes the spokesman of the Japanese forces in the Philippines as follows: "With a view to saving the traditional cultural establishments of Manila from the havoc of fire and to prevent innocent inhabitants from suffering untold..
Read more5th February 1945
Kobe was raided yesterday by 100 B-29's. She eight-day theory seems to be working. Manila's fail was announced last night by San Francisco but the Japanese press still has the Americans at San Fernando, 70 kilometers away. At the diet a curious little exchange took place. The story goes that someone was indulging in the..
Read moreNovember 12, 1944
Typhoon is over, the sun is up again and the sky has brightened to a clear blue. The bird that perches on the tree near my window is there again, fluttering its wings and in a while I'm sure it'll begin to twitter. No planes this morning. Everybody was expecting them today because they've visited..
Read moreNovember 7, 1944
Saw some of the Jap troops that arrived recently. They looked haggard, unkempt, underfed. Their shoes were made of black cloth and some were dragging their feet. Their uniforms were very dirty and smelly. Many of them were asking the people downtown if they were in Australia. No doubt Japanese people are being duped by..
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