Minimum Wage =$0.65
in 2015 Dollars = $8.59
The hiragana reads "kayou," short for "kayoubi," meaning Tuesday. That's the easy part :-)
こないだニュースでやってた、釜石が戦時中に攻撃受けたっていう話の、アメリカ側の記事かな？これ？ 何書いてあるかは、さっぱりわからんが。
I'm going to be guessing at some of this, but I think it means something like, "I was watching the news the other day, and it mentioned how Kamaishi had been attacked during the war, What is being said about this in America? I can't understand what was being written [about this]."
Probably not. And there would be three reasons for this, I think.
First, the American relationship to the Axis differed from the relationship of any of the other Allies. To put it as simply as possible, there are no Japanese-British, or German-French, or Italo-Russians, but there were, and are, German-Americans, Italian-Americans, and Japanese-Americans, so while there would be no sympathy for the perpetrators of the Axis powers (Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, the Gestapo, the "Japanese militarists," etc.), there would be sympathy felt by some Americans, perhaps most Americans, towards the common German, Italian, or Japanese. (Less so towards the Japanese, but that changes very quickly from 1945-50, certainly by the end of the Korean War.)
Second, the Americans, alone among the Allies, genuinely wanted an idealistic solution to the problems caused by the war. The Soviets wanted land, money, and payback; the French and Italians wanted to prove that they weren't wimps; the British wanted to keep their empire. The Americans wanted a peaceful, prosperous world where everyone worked together in harmony--as if WWII were some global version of the Civil War, and that after some Global Reconstruction the unity of the world could occur. (Go back to the editorial cartoons concerning the UN Charter a few days ago: they veritably reek of this sentiment.)
Third, within 2-3 years of the end of the war, what should have been clear in 1945 became crystal clear: the Next Scourge was going to be communism, the Soviets and the Chinese were going to be our enemies, and to keep the communists at bay we would have to block their advances in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and over the pole on their way to America. This required a SAC to watch over the pole, a continued Good Neighbor policy in Latin America...and keeping the Soviets from expanding west and the Chinese from expanding east. Those meant we were going to have to station garrisons in West Germany and Japan, who suddenly had to become our allies.
The sight and sounds of American ships bombarding Japan proper had to cause Japanese citizens in coastal areas to ask where their fleet was?
200,000 Poles sentenced to death for collaboration? Never heard of this before. Maybe they were sent to gulags instead of firing squads?