Word: hideki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ichiro Kiyose, 82, Japan's leading authority on criminal law, who nonetheless in 1948 lost to the gallows his most celebrated client, Wartime Premier Hideki Tojo, despite a stubborn argument that Tojo had merely acted in national self-defense; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...
...trying to develop a soft cushion of economic development around China," says one Japanese Foreign Office expert. This "encirclement by prosperity" resulted last April in the largest all-Asian conference that Tokyo had witnessed since General Hideki Tojo's original Co-Prosperity Sphere conclave ia 1943. Six Asian nations attended-Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos and South Viet Nam, while Cambodia and Indonesia sent observers. The consequent exchange of information about economic aid needs and Sato's reminder that Southeast Asia receives only $2.50 per capita in foreign aid from all sources (v. $5 for Africa...
...rubbed off on Eisaku. Sato's older brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* was the star of the family, graduated second in his class at Tokyo University law school (Sato was much lower). In 1941, Kishi became one of the youngest Cabinet ministers in Japanese history when, at 45, he became Hideki Tojo's Minister of Commerce and Industry...
...Kwai. A new series of junior high school history textbooks, approved by the Ministry of Education, implies that the blame for World War II lay not so much with Japanese aggression but with economic pressure exerted against Japan by "the ABCD Ring" (America, Britain, China and the Dutch). General Hideki Tojo, who coined the wartime ABCD rationale in the first place, is no longer pictured in the textbooks as a militarist on trial in a war crimes courtroom but as a kindly gent patting the heads of children...
...heaviest fallout was emotional. Indignation, fear and an undercurrent of hysteria roiled the world from Milan, where pregnant peasant women were convinced they would bear monsters, to Kyoto, where Nobel Laureate Physicist Hideki Yukawa wailed that "humanity is now doomed with this cancer called the nuclear weapon...