6th March 1945
A Filipino who runs a restaurant in Tokyo gave me some estimates of current black market prices. In general, black market prices are 10 times… Read More »6th March 1945
A Filipino who runs a restaurant in Tokyo gave me some estimates of current black market prices. In general, black market prices are 10 times… Read More »6th March 1945
One of the Filipinos in Japan, in soliciting aid from the embassy as an air-raid victim, had a horror story to tell. Sometime ago he… Read More »5th March 1945
It started snowing in the middle of the afterward the air alarm was sounded. The combination seemed ominous after the heavy raid last month but… Read More »4th March 1945
I heard today of a contract of lease that indicates how even one year ago there were those who could read the signs of the… Read More »3rd March 1945
The wife of a Japanese diplomat complained to us that she had received orders to have her beloved police-dog killed. It seems all dogs in… Read More »2nd March 1945
When I went for a haircut to my neighborhood barbershop I found it turned into an improvised office of the local neighborhood association. A bomb… Read More »1st March 1945
A Japanese told me today how many of his countrymen keep themselves tolerably warm in these days of rationed charcoal, gas, and electricity. They take… Read More »28th February 1945
Our neighbor the factory owner was down in the mouth today. His downtown office was burned down in the last raid. Three caretakers were supposed… Read More »27th February 1945
Having slept through several alerts and alarms we woke up to find the apartment and the neighborhood without water, electricity or gas. Our own apartment… Read More »26th February 1945