United States: bombing of Japan, 118n7; froze commercial relations with Japan, 36, 42; imperialism of, 359; Japanese fear of confronting, 235; landings of, 188, 205, 206; military strategy of, and Chongqing, 207; and repatriation of French in Shanghai, 275 The Heelstone's shadow is now visible on the grass, and the tip of the shadow on Stone 30 has moved to the right

In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: The Political Roots of In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: The Political Roots of

This is the first mention of the term Nihon or Nippon that the Japanese have used for over 1400 years to refer to the archipelago. Composed of kanjis 日 (sun) and 本 (origin), Nihon or Nippon literally means "the origin of the sun" or the "land of the rising sun" ! Xinyaoye zhiyaoye lianhehui (Alliance of the New Medicine Trade and the Pharmaceutical Industry), 72n11 Vichy government: challenge to, by provisional government of the French Republic, 273; control of French Concession, 198; and Japanese access to the French Concession, 2–3; Japanese pressure on, 263; negotiation of return of Shanghai, 257–58; objectives of, 262, 264–65, 268; relations with Chongqing, 262, 267; relations with Wang Jingwei regime, 262–63, 267 Su Qing: Drifting Brocade by, 338, 339; and Eileen Chang, 340–41, 342–43; and the feminization of print culture, 12; media coverage of, 337, 340, 342n30; Ten Years of Married Life by, 314, 314–15n35, 338, 339; wrote for home journals, 335 Southeast Asia: British colonialism in, 252; distribution of medical manual in, 80n33; market for Chinese goods, 35, 54; market for New Asia Pharmaceutical Company, 68; New Asia sales agencies in, 70, 78; and the rubber industry, 29; source of rice, 125, 126, 126n49Tianjin: British concession, 229, 236, 251; French concession, 264; mentioned, 234; offices of New Asia Pharmaceutical Company, 70 War is hell, and this memoir gives a necessary and important account of what it was like for a very young girl to be caught in the middle of it through no fault of her own. But knowing that Henderson survived the ordeal and went on to have a rich life full of love, along with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, offers some shred of hope for the future. It is not a linear narrative book. It jumps around in time and in location. A chapter does not necessarily follow the one before, but sometimes they do. Kapuscinski is known for his reportage, perhaps more so than his books, and this book certainly displays an aspect of reportage, in that it can almost be read as a series of essays - some inter-related, but most not. assassination: attempts on British officials, 244; of collaborators, 197, 235; of communist targets, 97; of Lu Bohong, 52; of Mao Liying, 99–100; reported on radio, 287n32; of Shao Shubai, 211; threats of, to Great Way Government personnel, 178–79; wars, 98, 116, 142 labor: CC Clique and, 210, 220, 220–21n27, 222, 226; communists and, 212, 215, 219, 219n25; Du Yuesheng and, 190; Japanese and, 215–18, 236; native-place associations and, 123, 222, 223, 226, 227; unions, 217, 220–21, 220n26; and Wang Jingwei regime, 9, 123, 189, 220–22. See also Shanghai General Labor Union; strikes; workers

of the rising sun: meaning and origin Japan, the land of the rising sun: meaning and origin

bombing: of Great World Theater, 2, 3; of Japan, 118n7; of Pudong, 303; of Shenxin mills, 50; in Zhabei, 21 Juntong (Bureau of Military Statistics): assassination squads, 197; full name of, 210n4; Hong Kong operations, 195–96, 195n26; and labor, 210; loans to, from Du Yuesheng, 202–3; revenue from smuggling, 133–34, 202; and SACO, 206; and the Shanghai United Committee, 207. See also Dai Li The ancient Japanese traditions mention several particularly laudatory and poetic names relating to the natural environment of the archipelago. The texts thus mention the following periphrases: " the fertile land where reeds grow in abundance by the water's edge and where rice and the four other cereals ripen " (Toyo ashihara no mizuho no kuni), " the land of rich ears of the 1,500 autumns, of the plains of abundant reeds "(Toyo-ashihara chiiho-aki no mizuho no kuni)," the entrance to the mountain "(Yamato).

Shanghai: as center for culture and commerce, 67–68, 85–86; as center of film and modern theater, 346; flight from, 315; population of, 146n151; shared victimhood in, 148, 288 La prima tappa fu Accra, Ghana, nel 1957. Seguì il colpo di stato in Nigeria del 1966, la presa del potere di Idi Amin in Uganda, hutu e tutsi in Rwanda fino al genocidio del 1994, i bambini soldato, il Kenia, la Somalia, l’Etiopia (la carestia!), l’Eritrea, il Sudan, la Tanzania, Zanzibar, Nigeria, Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Liberia… baojia system: instituted by Great Way Government, 179; in model peace zones, 141–42; mentioned, 250; and rice supplies, 121n24, 127; in the Western District, 173n30 After having created the archipelago, the sea, the rivers, the mountains and the plants, Izanagi and Izanami give birth to the divinity of the day to rule the places. But his splendor is such that his parents send him to heaven to rule heavenly affairs. She is then called Amaterasu no Okami or the "great divinity who lights up the sky".

In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Surviving a Prisoner of War

Yet moments of humour and camaraderie also live on in Olga’s memory. The camp’s girl guide group held clandestine meetings, where they worked on sewing a quilt. The ‘Changi Quilt’ is now held at the Imperial War Museum in London, as an emblem of the guides’ courage and faith. As Olga says, “We always felt the end of the war would come, we lived for it, from month to month and tried never to lose hope.” About This Edition ISBN:Although it is practically impossible to see without processing the image to stretch the contrast, the Heelstone shadow is present in this photo. It's not visible on the ground, but on the lower left side of the face of Stone 30 - the stone on the right hand side of the entranceway into the stone circle. currency: and foreign exchange, 35n82, 241; instability of, 30–31, 36, 36n87; military scrip, 30; puppet, 35n82, 55, 124–25; reform of March 9, 1942, 125; Shanghai United Committee and, 195 The second problem is more serious - the shadow is off to the right of the main entranceway into the stone circle, and as the Sun rises higher the shadow moves further to the right and grows shorter. Does this mean I should have taken the photo earlier, or that the whole concept is flawed?