Press translations [Japan]. Social Series 0229, 1946-02-06.
Date6 February, 1946
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ITEM 1 Smallpox in Tokushima - Provincial Paper Tokushima Shimbun (Tokushima) - 31
Jan 46. Translator: H.
Nishihara
Summary:
The TOKUSHIMA Prefectural officials are taking measures to check the outbreak of
additional cases of smallpox. The Sanitary
Section has sent its members to TOKYO, OSAKA and KOBE to purchase vaccine. But vaccine
production has decreased in quantity
because of the sudden rise in the price of cows. The demand for it is great in the
OSAKA and KOBE district owing to cur
increasing number of smallpox cases. Therefore it is very difficult to get vaccine.
The officials are demising practical
measures to prevent outbreaks of other cases of the disease and are urging it's members
to get as great an amount of vaccine
as possible.
Patients suspected of smallpox and who have an attack of fever should consult the
doctor. The doctor should report the case to
the police as soon as possible. The officials of towns, cities, and villages are asked
to do their utmost to find the
patients, if any, as soon as possible
ITEM 2 Text Books to be Withdrawn from Schools - Jiji Shimpo - 3 Feb 46. Translator:
S. Sakata
Full Translation:
In accordance with the directives issued by MacARTHUR's Headquarters on 31 December
regarding the elimination of the teaching
of morals, Japanese history and geography, the following text-books published by the
Ministry of Education have unofficially
been earmarked for withdrawal by the Ministry.
(1) Text-Book for Primary School (A) Both volumes of "Good Children" (YOI KODOMO):
Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 of "Morals", an elementary
course; Vols.1, 2 of "Morals" for male pupils in higher elementary course; Vol. 1
of "Ethics" for female pupils in higher
elementary courses. (B) Both volumes of "Japanese History," an elementary course;
Both volumes of "Japanese History," a higher
elementary course; Both volumes of "Geography", an elementary course; Both volumes
of "Atlas" an elementary course; Both
volumes of "Geography," a higher elementary course.
(2) Text-Books for Young Men's School. (A) Both volumes of "Young Men's Morals and
Citizenship," a general course; Vols. 1, 2,
3, 5, of "Young Men's Morals and Citizenship," for the regular course in the five-year
system; Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 of "Young
Men's Moral and Citizenship," for the regular course in the four-year system; Vols.
1, 2, 3, of "Girl's Ethics and
Citizenship" for the female regular course in the three-ye-r system.
(3) Text-Books for Middle Schools. (A) Vols. 1, 2, 3 of "Morals for the Middle School"
for boys; the same for girls; "Morals"
(from the authorized list of the Ministry) (B) Vols. 2, 3, of "History for the
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ITEM 2 (Continued)
Middle School"; "The World History", from authorized list. (C) Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 of
"Geography for the Middle School"; the
volume "Japan", of "Geography," from authorized list; "The New World Atlas"; Vols.
"Japan," and "Foreign Countries" of the
authorized atlas.
(4) Text-Books for Normal Schools. (A) Vols. 1, 2, of "Morals and Citizenship, for
the Regular Course in the Normal School";
The first part of "Citizenship for Normal Schools" (standard text book). (B) Vols.
1, 2 of "History for the Regular Course in
Normal Schools". (C) Vol. 1 of "Geography for Regular Course in Normal Schools"; "New
Atlas of Japan for the Normal School,"
(revised edition from the authorized list; "New Atlas of Foreign Countries for Normal
School," (revised edition).
The other old text-books of the affected lessons which are being used as reference
books will also be withdrawn by the
authorities.
The Ministry's notification in detail regarding the method of withdrawing the text-books
will be issued in the near future.
Every authority of the Metropolis and prefectures will carry out the duty of withdrawing
the text-books from each of the
schools under their supervision by the enc of February in the four big cities, namely,
TOKYO, KYOTO, OSAKA and KOBE, and by
the end of March in the other places.
ITEM 3 The Future of Music - Mimpo - 4 Feb 46. Translator: T. Ogawa
Summary:
A ray of hope has begun to appear in the future of the musical world of JAPAN. NORISUGI,
Yoshihisa, the former President of
the TOKYO Music Academy, who had an out-of-date bureaucratic and militaristic trend,
has been ousted and KOHIYA, Toyataka has
been appointed its new president. The new president is well known for his personality,
scholary attainments and intelligence
as well as an art critic and also as one of the late SOSEKI's best followers. It is
beyond dispute that he is the leading
light of our music world since the death of the late Prof. IZAWA, Shuji, the first
president of the academy.
There is, however, still much about him that makes us wonder whether he is really
suitable for the job of reconstructing the
academy which has been devasted by the bureaucratic president.
In an attempt to expel the followers of NORISUGI, who promoted militaristic education.
Senior Professors TAKAORI, Miyaji,
IGUCHI, Motoycshi, of the Piano Course; KINOSHITA, Tamotsn, of the Vocal Course; INOUE,
Takeo, of the Violin Course;
HASHIMOTO, KUNIHIKO, of the Composers Course; and Endo, Hiroshi, of the Library Course,
were forced to tender their
resignation in the name of the Reform Committee organized by progressive young instructors
such as NAGAI, Susumu, of the Piano
Course; HIRAI, Yasuki, of the Composers Course; etc. It is quite natural that the
senior professors should assume
responsibility during the war. It is not a democratic reform, however, when the committee
forces them at its own discretion to
tender their resignations without consulting the faculty. The abolition of the Japanese
Music Course end the separation of the
Normal Course are other examples of this sort of behavior.
ITEM 4 Temporary Houses - Nippon Sangyo Shimbun - 4 Feb 46. Translator: Y. Akabane
Summary:
As one of the measures to solve the citizens' housing problem for this winter, the
Metropolitan Office promised to build by
the end of last year; (l) 5,000 simple dwellings as part of the Ministry of Welfares'
plan to build 300,000 houses throughout
the country; (2) 1,000 small dwellings in the metropolis itself and three apartment-houses,
by
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ITEM 4 (Continued)
repairing half destroyed buildings and other well constructed edifices such as national
schools etc to be offered for the use
of war-sufferers. However, the present prospect is not so bright, and the above measures
to tide over the severe winter
season, do not seem to be completed as planned owing to the difficulty of obtaining
the necessary materials. They will not be
completed before the middle of April.
The housing problem must be solved as soon as possible to liberate citizens from
their unhealthy shanty life, to hasten the
rehabilitation of the demobilized and to relieve the grief of young men and women
who have to delay their marriages for lack
of housing.
The following is the gist of the story told by a clerk in charge of the Housing Section
of the Planning Bureau of the
Metropolitan Office;
"We planned to build by the end of last year 5,000 of 50,000 houses with materials
to be obtained on the basis of a plan by
the Welfare Ministry, beside 1,000 to be built in the Metroplis! itself. The rent
for these will be partly borne by the
Metropolitan Office as rents have become very high. Only 430 houses were built by
the middle of January in OJI, EBARA, ADACHI,
NAKANO, ARAKAWA and TOSHIMA-Ku. TWO thousand are now under construction and will be
completed by the end of March. From the
condition of incoming materials, it is likely that houses originally intended for
winter won't be finished before spring. The
supplies of lumber are expected to become a little greater than before, but due to
the difficulty of transportation, large
supplies from places of production in HOKKAIDO, AKITA, NAGANO, TOCHIGI etc., can not
be expected.
Moreover, the lack of nails, boards and fitting, in addition to the insufficiency
of labor in the sawmills prevents us from
predicting accurately the progress of dwelling construction works. To meet the bottle-neck
in obtaining materials, and to
eliminate it the Metropolitan office is endeavoring to recover sunken wood in the
bay of TOKYO through the TOA Diving Industry
Research Institute and to enlarge the lumber-mills in FUKAGAWA-Ku. "On the other hand,
the repair of half-destroyed buildings
is progressing speedily and by the middle of April around 25,000 tsubo will be completed
as planned. Buildings already
accommodating war-suffers at the hands of the ward offices concerned are as follows:
(numerals in parenthesis show the number
of families accommodated)
SANNO Hotel (89); TSURUKAKI National School (50); ICHIJUKU Pharmaceutical Company,
HONJO-Ku (13); YAMATO-RYO, SHIBUYA-Ku (20);
HATCHO-HARA former military barracks ITABASHI-Ku (12); Second military arsenal building
in the same place (57); HAMADA
building, NIHONBASHI-Ku (7); KAWASHIMA building in the same ku (5); OKAZAKI Hospital,
USHIGOME-Ku (lb); former military
barracks SETAGAYA-Ku (300); and two national schools in SHITAYA OKACHIMACHI (517)
and ASAKUSA ISHIHAWA (110) are 90 per cent
complete. In addition, about 10 buildings with accommodation for about 350 families
are now under repair and will be opened to
war-sufferers by the end of March and 17 other buildings including ten national schools
with accommodations for 1,230 families
will be completed by the middle of April. What is the cost of these simple swellings?
The following are sums calculated on the
official prices of various materials obtainable through regular channels, so it must
be noted that the cost of building houses
will amount to several, or sometimes more than ten times more, if individuals construct
houses with materials obtained at
black market prices.
1. A simple dwelling of seven tsubo for the use of war-sufferers costs around 6,000
yen, (of which about 2,500 yen are for
lumber, from 420 to 480 yen for 6 mats, 15 yen for sliding screen paper, yen roofing,
500 yen boards for fit[illegible]ings, 10 yen for nails. The cost of labor is about 1,300 yen and certain amount for
electricity and
water supply). At any rate, it is a very difficult task to obtain materials, especially
at official prices. Nails are most
difficult to buy at present. 2. What is the rent of rooms and houses to be rented
from the
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ITEM 4 (Continued)
metropolis or the Housing Association? Repairing expenses of half destroyed buildings
and schools are from 200 to 500 yen per
tsubo, so a building covering 1,000 tsubo will need about 500,000 yen at the most.
The rent is to be calculated on the basis
of such expenses, but a part of these expenses is borne by the metropolis, so the
rent to be paid by renters is far cheaper,
varying from 2 yen 50 sen to 3 yen 50 sen. The rent for a metropolitan simple dwelling
varies in from 20 to 35 yen a month for
a house of 7 tsubo;"
What are the conditions of living in these simple dwellings? The following has actually
been seen by the reporter: 1. Fifty
families are now in the TSURUMAKI national school in WASEDA. There pre 26 suites of
two room with 6 mats each intended for
families and rooms with 6 mats for bachelors. Rooms for families are now furnished
and fit for a family of several persons,
but at night it is cold as the outside windows of the building are not yet repaired.
Rent is 35 yen a month, but there are
rooms rented at a lower rate of 12 or 13 yen. A common bath covering 25 tsubo is now
under construction. As there is no
kitchen tenants are using SHICHIRIN in their respective rooms for cooking. 2. Sixty
simple dwellings are being built on the
premises of the former prison in ICHIGAYA. Each house has two rooms, one with six
and the other three mats, but no mats are
put in the latter. Moreover, the roof is covered with [illegible]ofing paper as bad as cardboard, and does
not seem to be strong enough to ward off heavy rain or snow. The height of the floor
is only three sun from the from the earth
and doubts are entertained about what will happen in the rainy season. Only 2 families
are living there. 3. Behind the
SHINJUKU Station, there is a shop dealing in sets of temporary simple dwellings. This
shop is run by the metropolitan Housing
Corporation. About 200 sets were there and these were all taken. According to a clerk,
lumber is coming in on an average of 40
freight trains a day, but as the supply of roofing materials, mats and window glass
is not sufficient, only wooden sets are
being sold at 2,400 yen each. More than 3,000 yen will be necessary for putting them
up, including transportation. One two
storied house, re-built with materials brought from a workers' dormitory in YOKOSUKA
Naval Arsenal, and capable of
accommodating about 30 families, is in AOYAMA, Here there is a room on both sides
of a passage, with 9 mats, a closet end a
dirt-floor of one tsubo. Several families are living there. Other buildings are now
being built on the same site and if
completed they will be able to accommodate a total of 685 families. The inhabitants
are complaining of the difficulty in
getting water.
ITEM 5 Distribution of Hoarded Rice - Mainichi Shimbun - 4 Feb 46. Translator; S.
Shiba
Full Translation:
(NAGANO), the actual state of affairs in the army base ration depot has been exposed
by the demobilized student officers who
reported that 1,800 koku of rice were being kept hidden by the Army which persuaded
a certain member of the Agriculture
Society to do this, and the prefectural authorities have begun to examine the situation
closely.
With regard to this, the prefectural provisions authorities concerned said that they
received 1,620 koku of rice as class A
commodities and 1,520 koku as class B commodities from the Army and they were all
dispose of as the distribution of rice for
la3t year. 1,620 koku of class A rice were described on the distribution list but
1,520 koku was the amount that has been
found by the prefecture investigators. Therefore the above mentioned 1,800 koku of
rice might have been mixed in with the
amount which was distributed for the above-stated term, but the case will be closely
examined, considering the large quantity
of staple food involved.
DISTRIBUTION "X"
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