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- <title>
- Dec. 02, 1991: Remembrance:"That Was Our Heyday"
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 02, 1991 Pearl Harbor:Day of Infamy
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEARL HARBOR, Page 51
- REMEMBRANCE
- "That Was Our Heyday"
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- <p>By KIICHI MIYAZAWA
- </p>
- <p> [Now 72, he became Prime Minister of Japan in November.]
- </p>
- <p> In October 1942 I was chosen for a survey team of
- Southeast Asia. That was our heyday. I remember army and navy
- officers wanting to load Johnnie Walker out of the Hong Kong
- depot onto our plane, but the strip was too short; it never did
- get aboard. Those were the days when Japanese soldiers tried to
- eat Camay soap as a cake.
- </p>
- <p> In some countries I thought perhaps the people had been
- liberated from colonial rule. We were able to serve for their
- good. It was mostly fantasy, but we did have a kind of idealism.
- The local people were not very unhappy.
- </p>
- <p> In Singapore I asked a factory worker how she felt working
- under Japanese occupation, how it compared with her previous
- employer. She refused to say she was much happier. I was
- impressed with her candor. She was not the least bit
- subservient.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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