Press translations [Japan]. Social Series 0226, 1946-02-04.
Date4 February, 1946
translation numbersocial-1122
call numberDS801 .S84
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SOCIAL SERIES: 226
ITEM 1 Bicycle and other Thefts in HIROSHIMA - Provincial Newspaper, Chugoku Shimbun (Hiroshima) - 31 Jan 46. Translator: S. Inoue.
Summary:
At about 2300 on 28 January, three thieves broke into Mr. KATO, Yosaku's office of
the combined towns in the NOBORI-Cho
National School in JORYUKAM-Machi, HIROSHIMA-Shi, and stole 500 yen in cash while
threatening the family with Japanese
swords.
The AZUMA Police Station arrested a bicycle thief on 29 January. The thief, named
MIYAGI, Rokutaro (43), was unemployed and a
native of SHIGA-Ken. He is alleged to have stolen four bicycles and sold them at 2100
yen each.
ITEM 2 Man Swindles Cotton from Sericulturalist - Provincial Newspaper Shinano Mainichi (Nagano) - 31 Jan 46. Translator: T. Ogawa.
Summary:
Having been informed that a great quantity of cotton textiles owned by the OGAM Industrial
Company of MATSUMOTO-Shi was being
hoarded in the silkworm raising room at the house of NAKAMURA, Yaichiro, in KOKURA-Mura,
a seven-man gang of swindlers plotted
to swindle the owner of these textiles.
The men involved are; IKEDA, Giichi (age 21), ISHIKAWA, Nakaichi (19), OTOYAMA, Aimichi
(20), KANAYAMA, Shota (27),
NISHIMATSU, Kintaro (46), HARADA, Shunshaku (40), NAKAWA, Shoichi (27), and IMAIZUMI,
Kazushige (21).
Being a former employee of the Occupation Forces, IMAIZUMI deceived an American soldier,
an acquaintance of IMAIZUMI, by
saying: "Please drop in at my home." They rode in a jeep to the house of NAKATA, the
silk-worm raiser, and asked him to show
them into the raising-room, pretending that they came by the Occupation Forces' order.
But when their request was rejected by
the owner on the excuse that he had no key with him now, they left, promising to visit
again in a few days.
On 25 January they visited NAKATA again with a borrowed truck, and carried out 290
rolls of cotton flannel, and 96 rolls of
plain cotton cloth. The next day, they also carried away rolls of cotton flannel,
and 95 rolls of plain cotton cloth in the
same way, the total value of which is estimated at 10,800 yen.
The culprits were arrested, however, by the MATSUMOTO Police just when they were
carrying out the third truck-load of the
swindled goods
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ITEM 2 (Continued)
TAKATA, Miyaki (age 37), unemployed, living at OHYANAGI-Cho, MATSUMOTO-Shi, swindled
two to of rice, and one to each of barley
and wheat, from YAMADA, Kiyoichi, and insurance salesman living in HOTAKA-Mura, deceiving
him by saying he would get a sewing
machine for him. This swindler has committed several crimes by pretending to be an
employee of the Occupation Forces. He is
alleged to have made more than 6,000 yen illegally, but was arrested by the TOYOSHINA
Police and sent to the Public
Prosecutors' Office on 29 January.
ITEM 3 Reduction of Prefectural Staff in KYOTO, MAIZURU and FUKUCHIYAMA - Provincial Newspaper Kyoto "shimbun (Kyoto) - 31 Jan 46. Translator: M. Ohno.
Full Translation:
In accordance with the plans for the reformation of the administrative system of
the Government, the KYOTO-Fu Authorities have
decided to discharge officials corresponding to about 30 per cent of the total. Thus
directives have been issued to the mayors
and heads of the towns and villages to be put into effect by 31 March.
Accordingly, officials, corresponding to 30 per cent of the total, including the
annual salaried officials, monthly salaried
officials, officials not on the regular staff and other employees in the KYOTO Municipal
Office, 20 per cent of the officials
in MAIZURU-Shi and 10 per cent of the officials in FUKUCHIYAMA-Shi are to be dismissed.
As for officials in various towns and
villages, suitable steps based on the standard of the above three cities, will be
taken in accordance with the respective
provincial circumstances. However, technicians working at various laboratories and
ether places are not to be discharged.
Retirement allowances at the rate of five-tenths their monthly income are to be given
to the discharged officials together
with a similar sum as occupation change allowance. However, if the total sum of allowances
is less than a sum corresponding to
five month's salary, five month's salary will be paid, and if it exceeds a sum corresponding
to 10 month's salary 10 month's
salary will be paid.
ITEM 4 The Distribution of War Materials Returned to JAPAN by Occupation Army - Provincial Newspaper Shinano Mainichi (Nagano) - 31 Jan 46. Translator: Y. Akabane.
Summary:
The governor of NAGANO-Ken, Mr. MONONOBE, declared that the delay in the disposal
of returned war materials was due to the
sabotage of agents who were ordered to dispose of them. The following is a summary
of an interview with the leading staff of
the Ken Textile Control Company which is handling a large part of these returned materials.
"Materials delivered to the Allied Forces from the Army (they are called "A materials")
were received by the chiefs of local
branches of the Prefectural Office at the beginning of November. It was on 28 November
that our company received lists from
the Ken Office prepared on the basis of these materials. There upon, we prepare to
complete their distribution by 20 December
and instructed all our
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local agents to come to take over alloted materials on 7 December. However, instructions
were received from the Occupation
Forces to postpone the distribution. It was 26 December that permission for collection
and distribution was obtained from the
Occupation Forces. In the meantime, on 27 December, the order to stop silk and silk
fabrics was issued and we were forced to
investigate the exact quantity of all such articles.
"As no restriction is imposed on materials directly handed over from the Army to
the Ken (they are called "B materials"), they
should have been delivered to us at once to distribute them through the regular channels.
In reality, demands from the local
branches for us to take over these B materials have been irregular and have come in
several times separately since last
August. Only a few days ago, we were requested by a local branch in HIGASHI-CHIKUMA-Gun
to take over materials held in
SHIOJIRI. In January, we were on holidays until the sixth. Though we began our business
from 7 January with might and main, we
faced a great difficulty on account of the discrepancies in quantity between the lists
and the actual materials, and were
obliged to re-prepare by ourselves the plan for collection and distribution based
on the existing materials which are in store
in various places, some of them being dispersed even in the closets in the houses
of local people. To distribute these
materials all over the Ken, about 1,000 trucks are necessary. This is food for thought
though we have done our best to dispose
of our business. However, it is to be regretted that we are condemned as having been
idle.
"At the end of last year, we were instructed by the prefectural authorities to deliver
them a quantity of military shoes and
boots, shirts and socks, which were distributed, among the prefectural staff as year-end
gifts. We were upset at having to
distribute such materials to them before distributing them to the people. However
hard we try, transportation is our greatest
need. If, as planned, 73 trucks and 33 freight cars, as well as 324 packages, are
moved smoothly by 4 February, materials will
surely reach the retail control! associations in different places by 5 February.
"Distribution tickets are to be delivered to the purchasers through heads of cities,
towns or villages by 5 February in
accordance with the prefectural instructions. So, if arrangements to be made by the
local branches and cities, towns and
villages are completed as instructed by the Ken Office by the 5th, distribution against
tickets will begin on 6 February and
be finished on 10 February. In order to sweep away the popular suspicion regarding
returned war materials, the Ken authorities
opened a conference on the 29th, at which both officials and civilians directly connected
with the distribution and
transportation, including, of course, the governor, were present. It was decided that
over 500,000 items including 9,224
packages containing military uniforms, blankets, shirts, pants, socks and stockings,
valued at over 18,000,000 yen are to be
sent out, mobilizing 73 trucks and 33 freight cars, etc. They will be distributed
through joint selling stations scattered
throughout the prefecture by 10 February at the latest. Necessary instructions have,
therefore been given by the governor to
all police offices, and heads of cities, towns and villages. If completed as planned,
the distribution of war materials,
including those already distributed, will come to an end two months after its beginning."
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ITEM 5 New Railway Hospital in NAGANO Provincial Newspaper Shinano Mainichi (Nagano) - 1 Feb 46. Translator: S. Sakata.
Summary:
The renowned "ghost's mansion" in NAGANO-Shi is expected to be made into a hospital
soon for the employees of the Railway
Ministry. The building, which the NIIGATA District Administrating. Bureau of the Ministry
purchased from NAKAJIMA, Morinosuke,
physician, of MINAMI-ISHIDO-Machi, NAGANO-Shi, will be named the NAGANO Branch of
the NIIGATA Railway Hospital. Patients will
be admitted after the middle of this month, when the inside equipment of the new institution
is expected to have been
completed.
The new hospital is to have various departments such as surgery, internal diseases,
etc and will have 50 beds. Any railway
employee who becomes sick or is rounded in the course of duty is to be treated free
of charge there.
ITEM 6 Democratization of WASEDA University - Nippon Sangyo Keizai - 3 Feb 46. Translator: S. Sakata.
Full Translation:
Urged by the alumni desiring to promote the democratization of WASEDA University,
a meeting was held at the university on the
first by the main body of the professors who are dissatisfied with the attitude of
the university authorities. They intend to
revise the rules of the university after the presidential election is carried out
by the Education Reform Examining Committee
which the university authorities themselves appointed.
At the meeting the following opinions prevailed.
- 1.Immediate retirement of those who had the supreme duty of leading the university as directors during the war.
- 2.Reformation of the university's rules should be carried out by a committee consisting of representatives publicly elected from among the professors of each department.
- 3.The president and directors should publicly be elected by the representatives whom the assemblies of the professors and the managers of graduates' society will elect in accordance with the newly reformed rules.
ITEM 7 How Students Spent Their Vacation - Minpo - 3 Feb 46. Translator: S. Inoue.
Summary:
A long winter vacation has come to an end. Food and housing shortages, which were
responsible for the long vacation, remain as
severe as ever. There are many problems which have attracted the students' attention,
such as the Emperor system and student
participation in political campaigns. How, then, did they spend the holidays just
ended?
Mr. I., a student of the TOKYO Imperial University said: "As I belong to a certain
political party, I have made a great effort
to get new members for my party during the holidays. I am a political
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ITEM 7 (Continued)
student and I am sure that we students can play a big role in guiding politics in
the proper direction."
Mr. C., a TOKYO Imperial University student said: "I came up to TOKYO two or three
days ago, as there is much food in local
places, and I have gained weight. I worked hard so that I might recover what I had
lost during the war. After intervals of
studying, I talked with local youths about the political or the food problem."
Mr. A., a WASEDA University student said: "My parents are still in MANCHURIA and
I do not know what has become of them. As I
have received no money from my parents since the end of the war, I am obliged to work
for my bread. I am now a newspaperman in
the morning for 150 yen a month and a translator in the evening. I am sorry that the
hours for study are greatly lessened by
earning my own living."
Mr. D., a KEIO University student said: "I stayed in TOKYO during the holidays and
with my comrades opened a free college at
the lecture hall in my school for the study of democracy. I also went to many factories
in the JONAN district to investigate
scientifically how laborers are working and living."
A girl student said: "I applied for a job at the DAI ICHI Hotel for the Occupation
Troops, partly to make full use of the
holidays and partly to aid in supporting my family. Some people may look at me peculiarly.
However, the present job is
something useful to me and I am happy enough to have gained a little knowledge of
English. I want to keep this job for some
time to get a little practical knowledge rather than go back to school where no educational,
policy has been set up yet."
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