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Prosecution's Pal. The witness was sworn, squeaking his answers in Japanese. His name was Machitsura* Hashimoto, his "present occupation is the pleasure of the court...
Floor-Gazer. Iko Hashimoto testified. He had sighted the Indy at a range of 11,000 yards (in such visibility, the prosecution charged, the cruiser should have been zigzagging); her straight course had given Hashimoto an easy torpedo solution -so easy, he said, he had not bothered to use "human torpedoes" (guided by suicide pilots). He had scored three hits-Hashimoto was very professional and calm. The Indy had gone down with the loss of 880 American lives...
...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, bullyboy and cloak-&-dagger man, who in 1936 took part in the bloody coup against the Government. In 1937 he ordered the bombing of the U.S.S. Panay. His motto: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit and talk...
...admiral would be flying a torpedo bomber Tokyo did not even attempt to make clear. But there was a possible explanation in a recent speech by Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, head of the central headquarters of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. Cried Colonel Hashimoto: "We must crash into the enemy in suicidal attacks at the front and at home . . . the only thing for us to do is to decide to die, so this burning determination may take the form of firepower in the general war situation...
...include such prominent figures as Admirals Takahashi, Suetsugu, Hasegawa, Yamamoto and Sekine. The head of the Aikoku Meirinkai, a powerful five-million-man military reserve organization, and the element which will form the home front army which we must fight when we invade Japan, is the notorious Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Seigo Nakano, who was a next-door neighbor of mine, is a director of the organization. From the second floor of our house, we could see over the high bamboo fence into his garden where often the Black Dragon functionaries would gather. The police who "protected" his place often came...