Press translations [Japan]. Social Series 0106, 1945-12-21.
Date21 December, 1945
translation numbersocial-0445
call numberDS801 .S84
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SOCIAL SERIES: 106
ITEM 1 Behavior of Women in Occupied Territories ASAHI SHIHBUN 19 Dec 45 Translator: GILBERT C.
American soldiers commenting on JAPAN say, "What a funny country. Even these persons
who behaved like lunatics daring the war
are now submissive as a passy cat." Otherwise the G.I. express their opinion of JAPAN
in one sentence, "what a boring
country!"
For the Japanese people it is a different problem. They have to live in this country
which has become so dirty and mean and
poor. Japanese new unanimously have one thought, "What a foolish war to have started,
what a disgraceful way to have
lost!"
Soldiers as a rule, are not bored, for occupation offers them a chance to exert private
piracy. The American soldier,
therefore, represents quite a new type of a soldier. A soldier bored over his Victory.
The Japanese and german soldiers have
been reknown for their "militaristic" appearance, while the American soldier is the
very opposite, so much so that some are
moved to question, "are they soldiers?" Seeing Japanese girls walking everywhere arm
in arm with the G.I. Japanese men feel
indignent and compelled to ask the American soldier, "you say, you are bored with
JAPAN, but, what about the Japanese girls!"
The American G.I. then laughingly replies "Oh, they! They are part of the picture
the world over!" Nothing remains of the
Japanese ideal of womenhood, nothing but pity for these Japanese girls who ran after
the American G.I. like oar befriended
pappy dog. When you think that these girls are to vote, it se. ms a pity.
The behaviour of women in the occupied territories is, however, of deep significance
as they reflect the culture and moral of
the their country. When the Nazis invaded PARIS, they sent the flower of their youth.
But, all good clan Parisian Women fled,
leaving the dewi-monde behind. When the german soldiers arrived, they showed excellent
discipline, bat, soon the Parisian
dewi-monde broke down their discipline. The german soldiers demanded that they sing
german songs with them, but, the
dewi-monde refused. They sang "Mon PARIS!" and in the end the german soldiers and
officers forgot their father land's songs
and were singing "men PARIS" with them. Two years later the german soldiers who had
enbibed to much French wine and cognac
lacked the discipline and training they had when they had entered PARIS, This was
the eve of the decisive battle which was to
decide their fate.
Conditions in JAPAN are today different from those which prevailed them in FRANCE
and Japanese girls are not French girls.
But, they can learn one lesson. American soldiers are not demanding that Japanese
girls sing American songs and pretend that
they are something that they are not.
MORITAMA then tells of the experience of the german soldier with the Russian girl.
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ITEM 1 (Continued)
He writes that many Russian girls trained by the Soviets "became soldiers or partisans,
but, he studied more the attitude of
the Ukrainian and White Russian girl toward the german soldier, that is of the female
population which remained for more than
two years unde german occupation. The german soldiers fell in love with these Russian
country girls who were not "Pretty" in
the same way the French girls were, hat, were about their hard daily work cheerfully
without artifice. They did not easily
surrender to the german soldier who was of different stock and language, hat once
they did, they became his, soul and body,
with a love surpassing the boundaries of Nationalism.
MORIYAMA claims that many a german soldier fell so madly in love with these Russian
girls that they told him of their
readiness to divorce their wives and give up their nationality. They did not want
to live in a GERMANY in which life had
become so difficult. They wanted to take off their uniforms and till the Ukrainian
soil with the Russian girl of their heart.
They had only one wish, that the war would be ended quickly. Hitler's "Way to the
EAST" had attained quite different results
from what he had desired.
The lesson to be learned here MORIYAMA concludes, is that the german and Japanese
teaching of "parity of blood." is against
natural law and that there is progress and advance of culture only through the intern
mixture of blood. BERLIN has been
stormed by Mongolians. Tasters and Caucasians, the german soldier subjugated by the
Russian girl, which proves that german
blood needed an injection of fresh slavic blood. The Nazis called EUROPE to a false
crusade, but, Soviet racial policies
triumphed over germanic "Welt a[illegible]schaaong".
The Soviets have permitte german Ps. W to mary Russian girls and when one of the
other girls has a baby, they have permitted
the german P.W. to obtain Soviet citizenship. The Soviets have given equality to all
races and colored. Such states of mixed
races and peoples like AMERICA and the SOVIET UKIOH have realized the Japanese ideal
of "HAKKO ICHIU" (TN All the world under
one roof), and not JAPAN.
JAPAN'S price for more than thousand years of isolation and inter-marriage only among
her own people is that it has become
(doubt full) whether her "blood" is worth keeping "pure", whether in reality this
"blood" is not the deepest cause of her
present defeat.
On the other hand, it is Internationally impossible in occupeid countries to keep
the girls from the occupation force. Girls
are hers worshippers, they love the victors, the successful and the strong. They question
the worth of men who have been
miserably defeated. In HOLLAND, they cat off the hair of girls who had intercourse
with german soldiers daring Nazi
occupation, bat, it is said that these girls did not feel a bit ashamed and screamed
with laughter. An American magazine
reports that are American judge sentenced a german youth who had cat off the hair
of a girl who had an American G.I. as her
lover to nine months inprisonment. That is the period needed for the hair to regrow.
Speaking of "morals", JAPAN has at present none. She has to begin [illegible]new.
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ITEM 2 Arrest of Japanese in Food Black Market MAINICHI SHIMBUN 20 Dec 45 Translator: KINOSHITA J.
Full Translation:
Five illict dealers in military goods were arrested and declared guilty by the Metropolitan
Police Board on 19 December. They
are former Commander MASUYAMA Mitsuya (age 39) a former member of the Naval Aviation
Headquarters, YAMAMOTO Koji (age 45) head
of KAMATSU Restaurant in Yoko SUKA-Shi, KURIHAMA SPIMADA, Kunitaro (age 50), the head
of the KAIRAKU Restaurant at
YOKOHAMA-Shi, ISOKO-Machi, TAKAHASHI, Kaneo(age 37), Kohei(age 5l), a bean mash manufacturer,
of the same residence.
Taking advantage of an opportunity in the confusion at the war's end, the Commander,
joined with above four men, and stole
from the ware houses of the Aviation Headquarters in [illegible]-Ken, ATSUKI-Machi and [illegible]Machi, 600 bottles of whisky in five cases, 3,000 cans of food [illegible]250 cases,
textile fabric for 130 suits of clothes and others thoughts the total of which is
estimated above 100.000 yen at the official
prices. Loading it in MOGI'S truck, he fenced the goods to them and other high ranking
restaurants in the YOKOHAMA and
YOKOSUKA area at very high prices.
ITEM 3 Government Monopoly Bureau SHINAGAWA Factory employees form union [illegible]CHI SHIMBUN 20 Dec 45 Translator: KINOSHITA J.
Full Translation:
A rally for organising a worker's union in the TOKYO Ward Monopoly Bureau was held
at 14,00 hours on 18 December. It was
attended by some 600 workers of the SHINAGAWA factory. SHIRAISHI, the head of the
union, submitted petitions to AWASHIMA, the
head of the Manufacturing department requesting better treatment and other things.
AWASHIMA, is expected to answer them by 22
December.
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