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the introduction of American-style daylight savings time. Called sanmō taimu (“summer time”) in the marvelous new pidgin terminology of the moment, setting the clock forward an hour was opposed on the grounds that it simply extended the difficulty of “daily” life. People preferred that darkness come earlier, although they did not succeed in getting daylight savings time repealed until September 1951.37
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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