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Died. Okinori Kaya, 88, Finance Minister in General Hideki Tojo's World War II Cabinet; of intestinal hemorrhages; in Tokyo. Although sentenced to life imprisonment by the Far Eastern war crimes tribunal, Kaya spent only ten years in prison and made a political comeback by winning five consecutive terms in the Japanese legislature. An advocate of close relations with Taiwan and South Korea, he insisted that "Communism means only a dog's life...
...Modern quantum mechanics describes the forces between particles in terms of other, "mediating" particles. The mediating particle of gravity is called the graviton. The mediating particle of the electromagnetic force is called the photon. And the mediating particle of the "strong" force, proposed in 1934 by the Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, is called the "pion...
Friendship Meeting" in Tokyo, despite threats on his life from ultranationalists. He publicly argued that Japan should not go to war with the U.S., an attitude probably formed in part by the four years he spent studying at American universities. Although wartime Premier Hideki Tojo declared Miki an "undesirable candidate" in the 1942 elections, the voters of Shikoku sent him back to the Diet...
...resisted the invasion, but in vain. So it was that Hirohito eventually "inherited from his great-grandfather a mission, which was to rid Asia of white men." As early as 1921, when Hirohito became regent for his ailing father, he organized a cabal of young officers notably including Major Hideki Tojo, to undertake any mission the throne desired. Bergamini insists that two years before the fighting broke out, Hirohito personally "directed his General Staff to plan...
...Americans at war, Hideki Tojo epitomized all that was evil in Japan's ruling military clique. As the commander of the Imperial Army and Prime Minister (1941-43), he personally ordered the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that provoked U.S. entry into World War II. This week, as Japan prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of its unconditional surrender in that war, the memory of Tojo has all but faded to most Americans and even to many Japanese...