Word: hiroshi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Free Man. By 1943's fall, Professor Sakimura came to certain heretical conclusions: Germany's economic position was not nearly so strong as the Nazis pretended or Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima believed. The United Nations were winning the war. Inevitably, his own country's anachronistic feudal system would give way. Japanese like himself ought to fight for their ideas, break with their Government, dissociate themselves from a wrong and losing cause...
Most striking feature of The Big Talk was the absence of Japan's Ambassador to Germany, Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima. Perhaps Japan wanted to keep clear of Germany's war on Russia, at least until the first big 1942 returns were in. Or perhaps Hitler thought Japan had already gone far enough and pointedly left Japan's Ambassador out of The Big Talk. As to that, the world outside Castle Fuschl would have to wait...
...doubtless asked to explain Adolf Hitler's rather belittling reference to Yosuke Matsuoka in his proclamation of war. (Hitler: "I myself advised Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka that eased tension with Russia always was in hope of serving the cause of peace.") In Berlin Japanese Ambassador Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima called on Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop for the same purpose...
Germany, Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima, stopped off for two days of intensive diplomatic activity with the Japanese Ambassador to Russia, Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, and with the German and Italian Ambassadors, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg and Augusto Rosso. That the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was bent on taking Russia into camp was plain. Before leaving for his post in Berlin, General Oshima beamed at correspondents and murmured: "Close Soviet-Japanese relations are . . . necessary to facilitate the construction of a new world order...