When General "Jumping Joe" Swing, First Corps commander, came in from Corps Headquarters in Kyoto, 11 hours after Fukui's tragic earthquake (TIME, July 12) he asked TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans "How did you know there was going to be a quake here?"
Mydans, who claims no crystal ball, was actually in Fukui to dig up material for a forthcoming TIME story on Japanese recovery. He wanted to observe a segment of Japanese life that was not directly under the influence of Tokyo, an area which had been hurt by war but had recovered quickly,...
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