25th February 1945
We were just leaving the apartment to go to Mass when the alert sounded. We decided to risk it but we had not even arrived… Read More »25th February 1945
We were just leaving the apartment to go to Mass when the alert sounded. We decided to risk it but we had not even arrived… Read More »25th February 1945
“The fighting situation is becoming ever more fierce,” warns the Tokyo Shimbun today. “The enemy has landed on Yiojimu, which may be said to be… Read More »24th February 1945
After all the build-up of Hirose as chief secretary of the Koiso cabinet, he has now been shuffled out. Yesterday the government underwent another reorganization… Read More »22nd of February 1945
One of the Filipinos in Tokyo, who has been whiling away his spare time working out a Tagalog translation of Kathleen Norris’ “Mother”, was questioned… Read More »21st February 1945
The following story sounds a little fantastic but anyway it seems that when a Tokyo streetcar passed in front of the imperial palace and the… Read More »20th February 1945
The task force around Tokyo has definitely “sought refuge” in parts unknown, according to the vernaculars, and the Japanese staff finally showed up today at the… Read More »19th February 1945
An invitation from a Japanese afforded us a glimpse of home life in wartime Japan. We never could have found the place by ourselves so… Read More »18th February 1945
The air-raid alert is still on. Sights on the way to the embassy: schoolgirls in their quilted hoods giggling as they sunned themselves on the… Read More »17th February 1945
An early alarm routed us out of bed. There were no planes overhead but the Japanese radio said that an American task force was attacking… Read More »16th February 1945