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- <title>
- Dec. 02, 1991: Remembrance:"Worries Crept over Me"
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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 58
- REMEMBRANCE
- "Worries Crept over Me"
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- <p>By YASUHIRO NAKASONE
- </p>
- <p> [A 22-year-old navy first lieutenant when war broke out,
- he was Prime Minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987.]
- </p>
- <p> I was aboard a transport in the Palau Islands, waiting for
- word to go to the Philippines. When I heard of the attack on
- Pearl Harbor, I felt glad that we had won the first strike. At
- the same time, worries crept over me like a black cloud: if the
- U.S. really fought back, Japan might lose.
- </p>
- <p> On Dec. 20 we landed in Davao on Mindanao Island and took
- the airport. On Jan. 24, 1942, we arrived at Balikpapan on
- Borneo in Indonesia. Our job was to repair airports so our Zeros
- could fly within a week to 10 days and midsize bombers within
- 20 days. We had to work day and night. We all had a strong sense
- of duty, a sense that Japan was going all out.
- </p>
- <p> In May I began working on constructing an airport in
- T'ai-nan in Taiwan. There I heard of our loss at Midway. That's
- when I felt we might lose the war.
- </p>
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