What happens
Japan's secret police and the thought control that supports them are examined. The program describes how the government directs what Japanese people may think, how police, informers and secret societies enforce this, and how the 1923 earthquake, the Peace Preservation Law and wartime policy extended it. A foreign correspondent named Harrison Ames is shown being watched, arrested and repeatedly held by police after reporting on a German minister's visit to Tokyo. The episode closes with a segment in which Colonel Frank Kurtz and his wife Margot appeal for support of the Sixth War Loan. The series is The Pacific Story, first broadcast on December 10, 1944.
Japan and Tokyo, from the 1890s through the Second World War, with a closing appeal set in the United States
Characters: Harrison Ames, Frank Kurtz, Margot Kurtz, Toyama, Matsukata, Professor Unagi, Ross Weldon, Kenji
Listen for: The account of how police and informers controlled thought in Japan and how Harrison Ames was arrested and held
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.