Press translations [Japan]. Social Series 0138, 1945-12-31.
Date31 December, 1945
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SOCIAL SERIES: 138
ITEM 1 Future of Miyazaki shi - Provincial Paper Hyuga Michinichi Shimbun (MIYAZAKI)
- 23 Dec 45.
Translator: H. Nishihara.
Summary:
Resulting from a directive of General Headquarters ordering that Shintoism be separated
from Government administration,
ancient legends of JAPAN are going to undergo scientific analysis in order to abolish
incorrect and mythological legends
concerning the history of JAPAN. Then we must consider the legends of our prefecture
of MIYAZAKI in the light of this
scientific study.
This prefecture is considered to be a sacred place where the ancestor of the Imperial
Household decended from heaven. The
legends also are important for the sight seeing travelers. In this connection; SENOGUCHI,
Ienkuro; chief of Provincial History
Research Institute, said, "Our Institutes research aims at the scientific study of
old manuscripts, and legends were studied
only to make sure of the result of study of old manuscripts. Therefore, we are not
forced to change our attitude of study. But
I believe the legends were abused by militarist and others, so we must study them
from a critical point of view." If the
result of archaeological study contradicts the legends, we must consider the archaeological
results as correct."
HIDAKA, Shigetaka; chief of the Ancient History section of HYUGA Research Institute
said, "In our institute, there are four
sections: legends, old manuscripts, ancient objects, ancient customs. Later we will
study mainly ancient objects and ancient
customs and other concrete materials, and refrain from employing the mystic method
of legends. We further aim to study ancient
history from an archaeological and biographical point of view, and ancient economics
religion, arts, etc, will be also studied
scientifically. But we do not despise the legends. If scientific study and legends
should prove the same, we should not throw
away legends."
Concerning the effects of abolishing mysticism in the study of legends, the Sight
Seeing Tourist Section of the prefecture
stated. "Beautiful legends and traditional stories should not be thrown away. However,
the mystic charms of legends of the
prefecture should not be exaggerated. In the future, we must improve the convenience
of the prefecture from a sight-seeing
point of view, Advertisements of scenes places, improvement of resorts, better service,
etc should be encouraged."
ITEM 2 Unhealthy Conditions in Black Market Eating Places - Tokyo Shimbun - 28 Dec
45. Translator: T.
Ogawa.
Summary:
Instructions have been given to all the police stations in TOKYO by the
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ITEM 2 (Continued)
Metropolitan Police Board to carry out a more drastic control over those stall-venders
who operate eating stalls under
extremely unsanitary conditions. At these stalls, wines containing methyl alcohol,
dangerous meats of diseased animals and
secretly butchered cattle are sold at blackmarket prices. Mr. ITOGA, the Chief of
the Health Section of the Metropolitan
Police Board, made a surprise overall inspection of these stalls in SHIMBASHI and
ASAKUSA areas, the most flourishing black
markets in the Capital, acompanied by one of his able subordinate health officers
on Wednesday. As a result of this inspection
tour, the following facts were disclosed:
- 1.A copper cauldron was used to boil food, and inside this cauldron was found green rust.
- 2.In a box containing salt, there was found a dirty FUROSHIKI, the out side of this box was soiled with mud.
- 3.Muddy water was used to wash the table ware. At the bottom of the chopstick rack, an empty tin can was also soiled with mud.
- 4.A vender was using his fingers to pick up foods instead of using chopsticks, with the same fingers he had just counted dirty 50 sen notes to hand a customer small change.
- 5.A vender was selling meat of questionable origin, perhaps from diseased cattle or secietly butchered animals, not approved by veterinary examination.
The-result of this inspection indicates that the stall-venders who have not been
warned numbered only ten. Those who have been
strictly [illegible]warned amounted to 300. The vine sold by a young man named KUZUHARA, Yasuhico, (aged
22)
was confiscated a detrimental to health.
ITEM 3 State and Private Railway Train Workers Link Demands. - Yomiuri Hochi 28 Dec
45. Translator: H.
Nishihara.
Summary:
The TOKYO Traffic Laborers Union (TOKYO KOTSC RODOKUMIAI) has demanded of the TOKYO
Traffic Bureau the following: (1) raise in
pay by 300 per cent; (2) Eight-hour day; (3) allocation of daily commodities; (4)
democratization of the Traffic Bureau. The
TOKYO Traffic Bureau gave no definite answer, and the union gave instructions to the
members to be prepared for a
struggle.
The State Tram Car Laborer's Union will hold an inaugural meeting on 29 December
at the TAKANAWADAI National School. The Union
will issue the following demands to the TOKYO Traffic Bureau; (1) recognition of collective
bargaining; (2) a single sum of
1,500 yen to every employee and 500 yen to be given to every family member of the
employee; (5) a raise in the sum of the
retiring allowance.
The employees of the SHIMBASHI Section of the State Railway has organized a union
and made the following demands to the
Railway Ministry: (1) recognition of the Union; (2) a single sum of 1,000 yen be given
to every employee and 300 yen for every
person supported by the employee, (3) raise of retirement pay and other allowances
by 500 per cent; (4) said to war sufferers;
(5) dissolution of the daily commodity section of the bureau.
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SOCIAL SERIES 138 (Continued)
ITEM 3 (Continued)
A stock holders' meeting of the KEISEI Electric Railway approved recognition of the
demands of the employee's union of the
Company. The representatives of the Union and YOSHIDA, Ide managing director of the
Company, were going to sign the agreement
at 1300 26 December, but the Company suddenly stated that the raise in pay 500 per
cent was recognized while other items were
rejected. The union will carry on the strike.
ITEM 4 Enormous Increase of Population in Metropolis - Tokyo Shimbun 29 Dee 45. Translator:
J.
Kinoshita.
Summary:
The population of TOKYO is increasing alarmingly. Increase of population among those
who seek food distribution, apart from
the census, shows the following figures:
The end of July - | 3,171,332 |
The end of August - | 3,214,305 |
The end of September- | 3,410,763 |
The end of October - | 3,659,612 |
The end of November - | 3,845,656 |
The majority of this number is due to the return of 100,000 school children, evacuated
family members and demobilized
personnel, adding a considerable number of repatriates. The reconstruction of shopping
centers and dwelling areas has invited
the increase in population.
In FUKAGAWA-Ku there were 15,000 inhabitants at the war's end, there are 16,000 at
present and there will be 21,000 in January
1946 and 40,000 by the following April. The incessant increase in population has been
becoming a great hindrance in the fair
and smooth delivery of various commodities. The Municipal Welfare Bureau and Economic
Bureau have distributed blankets and
other goods to an estimated 1,050,000 war victims, but the actual distribution was
severely empeded by the average monthly
increase in population of some 150,000 leaving a number of people without goods distributed.
As for the food supply, a monthly increase of 200,000 people must be relieved by
17,000 of 18,000 bales of rice and other
perishable food substances, which force a heavy burden on the present over taxed transportation.
At present, only 15,000 bales
of rice out of a daily demand of 20,000 bales are brought into the city. It is doubtful
whether the entry in the city of such
people is actual necessary. The problem of evacuation to the country to avoid starvation
should be stressed instead of the
wartime evacuation, it is said.
ITEM 5 Joint Farms for Schools Asahi Shimbun 29 Dec 45. Translator: M. Ohno.
Full Translation:
Owing to the shortage of food, many school children and students cannot furnish themselves
with lunch. As the result of this,
the number of
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ITEM 5 (Continued)
absentees at schools has increased recently and the continuation of the lessons at
schools has become difficult. To alleviate
this situation, the Education Ministry has decided to make a plan to increase the
production of food for school children and
students in co-operation with the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry and issued instructions
on 27 December to the prefectural
governors and the school principals as follows:
A joint patch of farmland for several schools must be made amoung those schools in
the center of a major city having no idle
land. If therefore any idle areas near the school, they all must be used. The emergency
farmland, 1,550,000 chobu to be
cultivated under the plan of the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry may also be used
for this purposes. If each student,
cultivated 20 tsubo of land, they would be able to produce in a year an amount sufficient
for 200 days' lunches.
ITEM 6 Military Officers Steal War Goods - Nippon Sangyo Keizai - 29 Dec 45. Translator:
H.
Nishihara.
Full Translation:
The Military Government of the Occupation Forces in SHIMCNOSEKI districts revealed
that munitions were conceald under cover of
confusion at the end of its war, by officers of the KOTSUKI Air Force. The names of
the officers are Colonel FURUKAWA; Chief
of Staff; Colonel UCHIDA, Chief of the Intendance Section; Lieutenant-Colonel TANAKA,
Chief of Ordanance Section;
Lieutenant-Commander, FUKUSHIMA, Chief of the Airfield construction Section; Lieutenant-Commander
HASHIMOTO, a section chief,
Lieutenant-Colonel MACHIDA, Chief of a fighter force; Lieutenant-Commander TAKAYAMA,
member of the communication section;
Lieutenant FUJIBAYASHI, another member of this section; and Colonels MIURA and KUBOTA,
both intendants.
They were arrested, by the SHIMONOSEKI police who revealed that the officers concealed
the war goods in neighboring houses and
distributed them amoung their friends. Important amoung the war goods are 55 trucks,
cars and auto-bicycles; 21 radios, 16
storage batteries; 136 parachutes; 22 dynamos; 3 telephones; 27 machine guns; 12,350
bullets; 188 cases of explosives, 22
bales of beans; 6l hyo of wheat; 26 hyo of kaoliang 52 hyo of dried potatos; 16 hyo
of millet; also quantities of seaweed;
fuel, rice, canned goods, clothes, MISO, SHOYU, and 10,220 yen.
Occupation Troops confiscated these goods and handed them over to the Home Ministry,
The officers were freed on 20th owing to
necessity of the pressing matter of the demobilization of troops. All the staff officers
were connected in the case, and the
public was indignant.
DISTRIBUTION "X"
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SOCIAL SERIES: 138 (Continued)
ERATA:
No. 530, SOCIAL SERIES: 128, dated 26 Doc 45. ITEM 1.
Paragraph 4: "Another Nisei, who declined to give his name, landed on 15 December
1943 in NEW GUINEA. Soon after he landed, he
was commanded by his superior officer to locate Japanese gun emplacements. While on
the job, he encountered four American
soldiers with a machine gun who cried "Halt." All four of them were trembling….."
should read
"Another Nisei (TN Name is not given.) landed on 15 December 1943 in NEW GUINEA.
Soon after he landed, he was commanded by his
superior officer to locate Japanese gun emplacements. While on the job, he encountered
four American soldiers with a machine
gun who cried "Halt." All four of them, it seemed, were trembling under nervous tension....."
Paragraph 5: "..... The natives brought back only dead Japanese and many dead Nisei
soldiers among them for the natives could
not differentiate between uniforms and were only able to distinguish between the white
and yellow race." should read
"....We, American soldiers with Japanese feature, were in danger of attack by natives
many times for the natives could not
differentiate between uniforms and were only able to distinguish between the white
and yellow once."
Paragraph 6: "Private URIFU, Ted, was born and educated in NEW YORK and never know
another Nisei until he entered the American
Army….." should read
"Sergeant URIFU, Ted, was born and educated in NEW YORK and never knew another Nisei
until he entered the American
Army….."
Paragraph 7: "Private NAKAMOTO, Ben, stated that Nisei are American soldiers and
American citizens, but they are of the same
blood as the Japanese people. So, naturally, the Nisei felt more warmly toward, the
Japanese Prisoners of War and a
occasionally was reprimanded on that account by the American soldier....." should
read
"Sergeant NAKAMOTO, Ben, stated that Nisei are American soldiers and American citizens,
but they are of the same blood as the
Japanese people. So the Nisei felt differently toward Japanese Prisoners of War and
our kindness was sometimes misunderstood
by American soldiers…"
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