Ambassador Grew did what he could, but Mr. Young accuses some other members of the U.S. Embassy staff of not pushing his case. When he got tired of waiting, his wife requested William Randolph Hearst to intervene. Hearst cabled Matsuoka and other big shots. Mr. Young's trial was called at once.
Found guilty, but promptly released, Mr. Young got out of jail to find that:
The Chinese war had taken an eighth of an iner off every Japanes> match.
Oranges cost $1 apiece.
Car owners were no longer given even their one-gallon-a-day allotment of gasoline.
Public dancing was prohibited and US. jazz bands were banned from Japan.
The annual tourist trade had dropped from some $10,000,000 to almost zero.
Rat skins were being used for shoe leather.
The scrap-metal famine was so acute that wire wastebaskets and metal door-knobs had to be guarded; most of the manhole covers had been stolen from tde streets.
The toy. novelty, and handicraft industries had died of international boycott.
Seven aeroplane factories were working day and night and fascists of the Army clique flew high.
Mr. Young does not like Japanese ways. He does not like Uhpanase red tape, formality, police spying. fashions, food, housing, weather. During his thirteen years in Japan he seems to. have relaxed only in circles of U.S. business and newspapermen similar to the ingrowing foreign groups of Shanghai's International Settlement. Against this handicap, his position with the Japan "Advertiser" gave him intimate contacts with almost every section of Japanese society, and he learned Japanese.
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