Oda ’ s writing career spans both prewar and postwar Japan.

The New York Times reported on similar statements previously, writing that " The nation's ( Japan's ) largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, applauded the revisions " regarding removing the word " forcibly " from referring to laborers brought to Japan in the prewar period and revising the comfort women controversy.

It, along with Nara, was untouched by the war -- and is now a beautiful example of the loveliness of prewar Japan.

It was the last prewar Grand Prix at Monaco, for in 1938, the demand for ₤ 500 ( about US $ 2450 Rudolf Caracciola

The total of German war dead was 8 % to 10 % out of a prewar population of 69, 000, 000, or between 5. 5 million and 7 million people.

Food production in 1946 – 48 was only two-thirds of the prewar level, while grain and meat shipments – which usually supplied 25 % of the food – no longer arrived from the East.

Al-Libi has been identified as the primary source of faulty prewar intelligence regarding chemical weapons training between Iraq and al Qaeda that was used by the Bush Administration to justify the invasion of Iraq.

In June 1982, a Village Voice report by Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith accused Kosiński of plagiarism, claiming that much of his work was derivative of prewar books unfamiliar to English readers, and that Being There was a plagiarism of Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy — The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma — a 1932 Polish bestseller by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz.

Food production was only two-thirds of the prewar level in 1946-48, while normal grain and meat shipments no longer arrived from the East.

Another estimate of Portuguese casualties by the US War Dept in 1924 was 7, 222 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 220, 000, 82, 000 caused by food shortages and 138, 000 by the Spanish Flu

He was educated at Reed College, studying under David H. French, and graduated in 1950 after a stint in prewar Korea.

Farms were in disrepair, and the prewar stock of horses, mules and cattle was much depleted ; two-fifths of the South's livestock had been killed.

Bushidō in the prewar period was often emperor-centered and placed much greater value on the virtues of loyalty and self-sacrifice than did many Tokugawa-era interpretations.

Although production of prewar models continued, a new model, the Tatra T600 Tatraplan was designed — the name celebrating the new Communist planned economy and the aeroplane inspiration ( Colloq.

A fair successor to the prewar cars, it was also driven by a rear-mounted, air-cooled V8 and had the company's trademark aerodynamic styling.

For an extended period of time — prewar through the early 1950s — the Pontiac was a quiet, solid car, but not especially powerful.

Partially because of this, the situation in most Republican-held areas slowly began to revert largely to its prewar conditions ; in many ways the " revolution " was over well before the triumph of the Franco forces in early 1939.

According to the 1921 census, the town had a Jewish community consisting of 757 people, or 61. 9 percent of its total population It was a typical shtetl, a small town with a very significant Jewish community, one of many such towns in prewar Poland.

The town was rebuilt, but never reached its prewar glory or population.

However, the firm was given the allocation at cost of a Glasgow bookseller and occasional prewar publisher, Alan Jackson.

This was used for 1944 – 46-dated cents, after which the prewar composition was resumed.

Douglas Jardine, the English captain ( and, like all England captains of the prewar era, a " gentleman amateur " leading a team partly made up of working-class professionals ), determined that Bradman was vulnerable to short-pitched bowling, and adopted " fast leg theory ".

During prewar and early war field exercises, it was noticed that these troops, when issued the rifle, often found their individual weapon too heavy and cumbersome.

He was frequently mentioned in 2011's In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, the story of the U. S. Ambassador ( 1933-1937 ) William E. Dodd and his family in prewar Berlin.

The only two examples of prewar Polish military aircraft in the collection: a PZL P. 11 ( the only surviving example in the world ) and a PWS-26, survived only because they were displayed as war trophies by the Germans, and so were part of the above mentioned collection acquired after the war.

Following the social upheaval of World War II, many people in the United States felt a fervent desire to " restore the prewar social order and hold off the forces of change ", according to historian Barry Adam.

Written at a time of increasing threat from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia, it portrays a human response to a tense, prewar situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra, somewhat absurd addition: an uncurable white disease, a mysterious form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people older than 45.

The Gray Ranks followed the prewar principles of the Polish Scouting Association: service to the people and country, and education and improvement of their skills.

The Nazi and Soviet massacre of the prewar Polish intelligentsia, and the emigration of many other intellectuals and skilled people, had left Poland severely educationally lacking.

The decline in industrial jobs meant that more poor people needed housing, whereas in prewar years, public housing was for working-class families.

Many of the same people and institutions were involved in a prewar American Library Association journal called The Journal of Documentary Reproduction, which ran from 1938-1943, before being discontinued due to the imperatives of the war.

The arts of the Edo and prewar periods ( 1603-1945 ) was supported by merchants and urban people.

The rifle-caliber machine guns that were common on prewar fighters could not easily down the more rugged warplanes of the era.

Other estimates of Italian casualties were: by UK War Office in 1922, Dead 460, 000 and by the US War Dept in 1924 650, 000 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 1, 021, 000.

Some Polish contributions were less visible, and most notably included the prewar and wartime decyphering of German Enigma machine codes by cryptologists Marian Rejewski and his colleagues.

Under the 1629 Peace of La Rochelle, the brevets of the Edict ( sections of the treaty which dealt with the military and pastoral clauses and which were renewable by letters patent ) were entirely withdrawn, though Protestants retained their prewar religious freedoms.

Eight of these guns were mounted in double-story casemates at the bow and stern, a reflection of the US prewar preference for heavy end-on fire.

Britain owed money to the USA, and in turn was owed four times as much money by France, Italy and the other Allied powers, although under the Lloyd George government Balfour had promised that Britain would collect no more money from other Allies than she was required to repay the USA ; the debt was hard to repay as trade ( exports were needed to earn foreign currency ) had not returned to prewar levels.

In fact, militarism and international tensions grew considerably between 1897 and 1914, and the immediate prewar years were marked by a general armaments competition in Europe.

Subsequent CD-ROMs, " The Taisho Era ", " The prewar Showa Era I ", and " The prewar Showa era II " were completed eight years after the project was first conceived.

In the mid-1950s, Soviet-style centralized planning produced economic indicators showing that Bulgarians were returning to their prewar lifestyle in some respects: real wages increased 75 %, consumption of meat, fruit, and vegetables increased markedly, medical facilities and doctors became available to more of the population, and in 1957 collective farm workers benefited from the first agricultural pension and welfare system in Eastern Europe.

The Serbs angrily replied that that was a clear withdrawal from the prewar agreement of mutual understanding according to the Kriva Palanka-Adriatic line of expansion, but the Bulgarians insisted that in their view, the Vardar Macedonian part of the agreement remained active and that the Serbs were still obliged to surrender the area as agreed.

Gradually members of the Communist Party and communist-aligned parties gained control of the administration, while prewar political leaders were steadily eliminated from political life.

In April 2012, President Lauder declared that by prevaricating on the restitution issue Poland was " telling many elderly prewar landowners, including Holocaust survivors, that they have no foreseeable hope of even a small measure of justice for the assets that were seized from them ".

Cars built after 1942 and up until 1948 are only accepted if they are nearly identical or fundamentally the same as the prewar vehicles ; the focus of the club is on the prewar, but this accepts that many cars built immediately postwar were actually the same vehicles as were available immediately before hostilities began.

Such innovations, however, were hard to support purely commercially, so prewar animation depended considerably on sponsorship, as animators often concentrated on making PR films for companies, educational films for the government, and eventually works of propaganda for the military.

After World War II the prewar borders of Spiš were restored, with the most of the county going to Czechoslovakia, and a small part to Poland.

All three predecessors were major financial institutions in their own right and had served as cornerstones of major zaibatsu ( prewar era ) and keiretsu ( postwar era ).

Subsequently, Brzeg and Lower Silesia were repopulated by Poles whom Soviets expelled from the eastern part of prewar Poland.

Plattenbau apartments were considered highly desirable in East Germany, the main alternative being overcrowded, deteriorating prewar housing, often with wartime damage still visible.