Early postwar Japan

January 2nd, 2009

From Mon Dec 15 07:35:58 1997
>From: “John Forester”
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>Subject: Early postwar Japan
>Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 21:47:57 -0800
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> As I wrote earlier, my father was probably the first person > of the victors
>who was allowed to leave the Tokyo-Yokohama area. When he visited the
>country, it was only two weeks or so after the surrender, and there hadn’t
>really been sufficient time for the Japanese as a whole to appreciate the
>general decency with which they were being treated. I attribute the
>happiness of my father’s tour to something more than that, earlier than
>that, and I suspect that part of it was the Emperor’s order to surrender
>quietly.
>
>John Forester 408-734-9426
>forester@johnforester.com 726 Madrone Ave
>http://www.johnforester.com Sunnyvale, CA 94086-3041

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