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Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Tuesday, July 23, 1946. Last of the POWs sent home.
The United States released the last of 375,000 German POWs it had held in the United States, embarking 1,385 of them on the General Yates after transporting them from Camp Shanks, New York.
About ten POWs who had escaped during the war remained at large and were never accounted for.
The Zaibatsu, the Japanese corporations that had financed Japan's war effort, were abolished.
Many of them would be reconstituted starting in 1953, including Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo.
Frances Ramsden and her standard poodles were on the cover of Look.
Ramsden was a model who had a very brief acting career, appearing in only three films. She later married Egyptian millionaire Adel Sabit, a cousin of King Farouk, but had to abandon Cairo due to that association. She divorced in 1975 and returned to California, where she spent the remainder of her life, passing away in 2000 at the age of 80.
The prior day's bombing of the King David Hotel made the front page of American newspapers.
It's interesting that the press referred to the Irgun as "terrorists". The label is appropriate in varying degrees, but the attack on the King David Hotel might have been a legitimate attack, in the context of a legitimate war, if this war is regarded as that. Terrorism itself is never justified.
The original goal of the mission was to destroy materials that identified those who had participated in the destruction of bridges a bit earlier in the uprising.
Of course, the ultimate question is whether the uprising itself was justified. I don't feel that it was. It's certainly the case that the failure to accommodate both the Arab and Jewish populations has resulted in 80 years of strife, although such an accommodation may not have been possible.
United Airlines addressed its customers.
United is in the news again today, looking for a solution for its customers who do not wish to fly into Insurrectionist Seditionist Narcissist International Airport in Palm Beach.
An interesting surplus item.
Monday, July 22, 1946. The bombing of the King David Hotel.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Thursday, July 22, 1976. Japan's last payment to the Philippines. A President has a sane day.
Japan made its final reparations payment to the Philippines for its actions in World War Two.
President Ford's day:
A couple of observations.
First of all, nice to see a daily Presidential agenda that wouldn't read like today's must:
7:15: President had Coca Cola and goes into a hate filled Tweet rage
8:00: President claims Joe Biden stole his Coca Cola.
8:15: President falls asleep. . .
Secondly, this was election season and Ford was contacting some state delegates, including some from Wyoming, none of whom I've heard of.
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Sunday, June 28, 2026
Friday, June 28, 1946. First Hāfu (ハーフ).
The first recorded birth in Japan of a baby born of a Japanese mother and a father who was an American soldier occupying Japan, was announced on Japanese radio, barely more than nine months after the U.S. commenced occupation of Honshu.
The number of such children born during the American occupation from 1945 to 1952 is unknown, but best estimates put it at less than 5,000. Small additional numbers had British and Australian fathers, with their fate being particularly harsh as British occupation authorities strictly prohibited liaisons with Japanese females and marriage was not an option. Many of their children were given up for adoption as orphans. In contrast,45,000 Japanese women became American war brides.
The entire matter was controversial in Japan, as generally it broke a strict cultural taboo regarding interacting with foreigners in this fashion. Cross cultural marriages were enormously looked down upon in Japan at the time and still somewhat are, albeit to a lesser degree. The occupation period is the only instance in which Japanese women breached the taboo on a large scale.
In this case, the extremely rapid nature of the conception raises real questions about the nature of consent in the matter.
Comedian Gilda Radner was born in Detroit.
Actress Antoinette Perry form whom the Tony Awards are named died at age 58 of a heart attack. There were signs that it was coming, but as a Christian Scientist, she refused to see a doctor.
She had been born in Denver, Colorado.
The Family Circle magazine featured a photograph of a cat in a wedding dress on the cover.
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Wednesday, June 26, 1946. The Nationalist Chinese Strike.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Monday, May 24, 1926. National Parks created. Oil concessions extended. Tokachi erupts.
The U.S. Senate passed bills creating Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee.
You can tell the likes of Harriet Hageman and Deseret Mike Lee weren't in Congress at the time.
The Kingdom of Iraq extended the "D'Arcy Concession" of the oil fields in the Diyala Governorate for an additional 35 years past its scheduled expiration date of May 27, 1961. In reality, events would cause the concessions to be renegotiated after World War Two and expire in 1958, the year that the Kingdom of Iraq itself expired.
Most of the concession territory was in Iran and was cancelled in 1932.
Mount Tokachi erupted in Hokkaidō, Japan, killing 140 people.
The volcano is located within the Daisetsuzan National Park.
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Thursday, May 20, 1926. Trains and Planes.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, 1930, 1930s, Aircraft, Barnstorming, Calvin Coolidge, Ernst Udet, law, Railroads, Transportation
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Sunday, May 19, 1946. Food protests in Japan.
Protests against the Japanese government occurred in the form of the People's Rally for Obtaining Food.
The news did appear in the Rocky Mountain News, but the aversion of a rail strike is what was on the front page.
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Friday, May 3, 1946. War Crime Trials in Tokyo and the Battle of Alcatraz
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Monday, April 29, 1946. Indictment of Japanese leaders.
Former Japanese Prime Ministers Hideki Tojo, Hiranuma Kiichirō, Kōki Hirota, Kuniaki Koiso, and 24 co-defendants were indicted in Tokyo for war crimes.
James White, the discoverer of Carlsbad Canyon, died at age 63.
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Wednesday, April 24 1946. Firsts.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Aircraft, Blog Mirror, France, Insurance, Socialism, Soviet Air Forces, U.S. Navy
Friday, April 17, 2026
Wednesday, April 17, 1946. Syria becomes independent. Protests in Japan.
Syria became fully independent.
Largescale protests in Japan broke out against the U.S. selected Prime Minister, Kijūrō Shidehara in favor of Ichirō Hatoyama, leader of the Liberal Party that won a majority in the April 10 election. The latter had been prohibited from taking office by the US on the basis of his having served the former wartime government.
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Monday, April 15, 1946. Introductions.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Tuesday, April 2, 1946. MacArthur bans fraternization, Murray tries for national health insurance.
General Douglas MacArthur issued the first regulations against fraternization between American soldiers and Japanese citizens as an attempt to stop soldiers from consorting with prostitutes. The regulations would grow into an extensive program of segregation.
Montana Democrat Senator James Murray convened his Committee on Education and Labor for the first hearing on comprehensive national health insurance. His concern arose from his prior role as a labor lawyer for coal miners.
Murray had been born in Ontario and was moved to Butte upon the death of his father that very year. He was left a very wealthy man by an inheritance that came about when his uncle, who raised him, died.
Murray was an Irish American/Canadian Catholic and died in 1961.
It's really dispiriting to realize that national health insurance, which was a desire of the Truman Administration, has never come about. All the arguments against it really fail, but the opposition to it has left the United States the only major nation without it and has contributed enormously to the decline of the United States as a first rate nation since the 1970s.
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Monday, April 1, 1946. The April 1, 1946 Aleutian Islands Earthquake
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Tuesday, March 28, 1876. The Haitō Edict.
The Japanese government issued the Haitō Edict, The Sword Abolishment Edict (廃刀令) prohibiting people, with the exception of former lords (daimyōs), the military, and law enforcement officials, from carrying weapons in public, including swords.
It was an attack on the former samurai class, with their establishment itself having already been eliminated.
Heavily romanticized, the samurai were one of the traditional Japanese classes which were an impediment on the Meji government consolidating power and modernizing the country. Regular citizens bearing arms had been banned in 1870 as part of the effort and the Imperial Japanese Army, with conscription, established in 1873. The moves were resented, but successful in consolidating imperial power.
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Sunday, March 26, 1876. Big Horn Expedition returns.
Labels: 1870s, 1876, 1877, 1890s, 1899, Army, Big Horn Expedition, Great Sioux War, Personalities, Wyoming (Ft. Fetterman)
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Friday, March 1, 1946. Things that almost were.
Kim Il Sung, was saved from an assassination attempt when Red Army officer Y.T. Novichenko caught a hand grenade thrown at him.
Operation Coronet, the invasion of Honshu, was planned to commence on this day.
Bombshell actress Lana Wood, sister of Natalie Wood, was born.
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Thursday, February 28, 1946. Ho Chi Minh asks Truman for help.
Labels: 1930s, 1938, 1939, 1940s, 1946, Franklin Roosevelt, French Indochina, French Indochinese War, Harry S. Truman, Ho Chi Minh, Hungary, Vietnam
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Saturday, February 26, 1876. The Japan Korea Treaty of Amity.
Japan and Korean signed the Japan Korea Treaty of Amity, formally ending Korea's status as a tributary state of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, but giving Japan special rights in an independent Korea.
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Monday, February 15, 1876. Texas adopts its current constitution.
Friday, February 20, 2026
Wednesday, February 20, 1946. Plans to transfer power in India.
President Truman signed the American Employment Act of 1946.
Prime Minister Attlee announced a plan to transfer power to Indians in Indian no later than June, 1948.
The Allied occupation authorities ended kōshō, licensed prostitution, in Japan.
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Monday, February 18, 1946 The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny breaks out.
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Friday, January 25, 1946. Soviet nuclear program gets s jump start.
Igor Kurchatov was summoned to Moscow by Stalin and ordered in an evening meeting to spare no expense in developing a nuclear weapon.
The ironic is so thick it's astounding. The Soviet Union's anti intellectual campaign had resulting in wholesale murder of engineers and scientists early on, and now the country was depending upon them.1
Of course, the Soviets had penetrated the U.S. nuclear effort, which was quite a help. Indeed, western scientist of all types, cooperative and captive, would be a boon to Soviet post war efforts on all sorts of weapons.
The United Mine Workers rejoined the American Federation of Labor.
Czechs began the expulsion of Germans from Sudetenland.
Sweden began the deportation of Baltic refugees to the USSR.
MacArthur recommended that Hirohito not be put on trial for war crimes.
Allied forces returned control of the Dutch East Indies to the Netherlands.
A manhunt was on near Sheridan.
Footnotes:
1. It is of course worth noting that the U.S., currently in the hands of the GOP, is itself engaged in an outright denial of science and engineering. Americans can almost take hope in the fact that the USSR, in spite of having murdered intellectuals and scientist, was able to make up the deficit and produce an atomic bomb in short order, suggesting that the current anti science and anti intellectual atmosphere of the GOP lead government migh talso be overcome.
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Wednesday, January 23, 1946. Soviet Agent installed by Truman.
Monday, January 19, 2026
Saturday, January 19, 1946. Creation of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal) was created by proclamation of General Douglas MacArthur.
Bell Aircraft chief test pilot Jack Woolams fle the XS-1 (X-1) in a non powered flight. It was the first flight of the aircraft.
Country music singer Dolly Parton was born on this day.
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Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War foodstuffs.
Labels: 1940s, 1945, 1946, Cartoons, Daily Living, Deer, Elk, Food, hunting, It was because of World War Two, J.R. Williams, Rationing, The family
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Sunday, January 13, 1946. The relentless advance of malevolent technology.
A ceasefire between Nationalist and Red troops in China took effect at midnight. Gen. George C. Marshall had mediated the truce.
The first issue of the Anchorage Daily News was published.
In Japan the luxury cigarette "Peace" was introduced.
The concept of a wrist communication device was introduced in the cartoon Dick Tracy.
I never could stand the cartoon, and the predicted device is a scourge.
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Thursday, January 10, 1946. The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
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