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Roosevelt, re-elected to a third term in 1940 after pledging that "your boys are not going to be sent to any foreign wars," knew that Hirohito was just a figurehead ruler over a militarist government dominated by the flinty General Hideki Tojo. Still, Roosevelt staked his hopes for peace on a last- minute message to the Emperor. "Both of us," Roosevelt said, "have a sacred duty to restore traditional amity and prevent further death and destruction in the world...
Hidekatsu Tojo, 53, eldest grandson of Hideki Tojo, Japan's wartime Prime Minister, who was hanged for his crimes in 1948, is dealing with the war's legacy in a different way: by pursuing a singing career. His first record is a war requiem called Under the Southern Cross. "The reaction to Tojo's name has become quieter recently," he said. "Attitudes toward the war are changing...
...Hideki Gondo (Tsutomu Yamazaki) is her dark double, a crippled, spidery man whose vast real estate portfolio includes a chain of notorious hot-sheet hotels. Gondo's outward manner vividly contrasts with Ryoko's. He too has a childish air about him, but it is the air of a spoiled child. Abruptly cruel and totally selfish, he is as maniacally dedicated to tax avoidance as she is to tax compliance. She may spare a moment from investigative accountancy for compassion (directed at his troubled teenage son). He may digress from getting and hoarding to express a possibly authentic romantic longing...
...World War II. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone thus touched a tender nerve last August when he became the first postwar Prime Minister to make an official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto holy place in Tokyo honoring Japanese war dead, including convicted criminals like Wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. The Chinese reacted with denunciations of a new Japanese "militarism," and last month placard-waving students from Peking University mounted a protest demonstration...
DIED. Katsuko Tojo, 91, widow of Japan's World War II Prime Minister and Imperial Army commander, General Hideki Tojo; in Tokyo. Tojo, who was hanged in 1948 for war crimes, never discussed affairs of state with his wife, and she learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor (which he personally ordered) on the radio. She led a quiet life out of the public eye (though one son last year was named president of Mitsubishi Motors) and remained unwaveringly loyal to his memory...