Word: asano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of the city at the Parish Church? About 4 o'clock in the afternoon, comes a report that the Church, Parish House and adjoining buildings had burned down, and that Father Superior and Father Schiffer had been seriously injured and that they had taken refuge in Asano Park on the river bank. Hurriedly, we get together two stretchers and rush toward the city...
...mind. He did not want to leave the house and explained that he did not want to survive the destruction of his fatherland. Completely uninjured, he was forcefully carried away. The way they had meant to flee was no longer open and so they made for Asano Park. Fukai refused to go further, and remained behind. He has not been heard of since...
According to Dunn, influential Japanese interceded on Asano's behalf with high-ranking American officers present at the original dinner, which was sponsored by the industrialist and Lieutenant Ralph T. Lamberson, MBA '42, a member of the Apprehension Division of MacArthur's War Crimes Commission...
...Asano pictures himself as an internationalist in his autobiography printed in the 1912 twenty-fifth anniversary report. As a result of his Harvard training, he has "been enabled to look upon life from an international point of view...no nation may live apart from other nations." Now that "the boundaries of the community in which we live have been extended to embrace the whole world," we must learn to live together. That is the dangerous thought of the 'Yellow Peril', as my classmates called me," he concluded...
According to Dunn, Lamberson knew about Asano's suspected record as "one of the big industrialists and a member of what is called the young fascist and industrial clique" when he approached him about organizing the meeting. "It was the general opinion," Dunn continues, "that President Asano was trying to make the most of his Harvard education...