Japan’s wartime fuel innovation

In a book ‘Made in Japan - Akio Morita and Sony’, its Chairman Morita narrates an experience in obtaining gasoline during the last great war for vehicles in Japan due to an acute shortage. “During the occupation, everything was in short supply and the black market was the place every one had to shop. The street scene in Tokyo was chaotic, noisy, smoky and smelly.”

“Gasoline was very scarce and expensive, when you could find it. Many of the cars, trucks and buses had been modified to run on waste oil, charcoal, or other solids that were burnable, including garbage and coal dust. They were still running after the war. But so many American soldiers were selling gasoline, siphoning it out of their jeeps and trucks and some actually selling it by the barrel that the military authorities tried to stop it by putting a red dye in it.” Our political Chinthanaya wizards could explore possibilities of turning out fuel from garbage in order to reduce the local oil prices.

With the American invasion the language of education experience changes. “Japanese education had traditionally been centered on reading, writing and abacus skills. But when the Americans came at the end of the war, they felt that verbal communication and audio/visual training were very important, and the Japanese Education Ministry followed their lead. But there was little media available in Japan, only some sixteen millimetre films with English language soundtracks, which were of very little use because English had been banned and its instructions prohibited during the years of war.”

OUR POLITICAL CHINTHANAYA WIZARDS COULD EXPLORE POSSIBILITIES OF TURNING OUT FUEL FROM GARBAGE IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE LOCAL OIL PRICES