Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly arrived white sea monkeys conquered Java, and before they were done, three-fourths of the globe. Then the world moved on in its circle. The long ground swell of anti-Westernism rose to a tidal wave after Pearl Harbor. It ebbed with Japan's defeat, but nowhere in Asia did the white man regain his prewar position...
...their brief and bloody day, the seven old men and their fellows had ruled an empire greater than Alexander's or Caesar's or Napoleon's. Last week, at midnight after the winter solstice, the paths of Japan's top war leaders ended without glory, but with a dignity that seemed enhanced a little by the doubt and confusion among the victors...
...seven were: Hideki Tojo, wartime Premier of Japan; General Kenji Doihara, who had engineered the Mukden Incident in 1931; General Heitaro Kimura, former commander in Manchuria; General Iwane Matsui, responsible for the rape of Nanking; General Akira Muto, former chief of staff in the Philippines; ex-Premier (1936-37) Koki Hirota; ex-War Minister Seishiro Itagaki...
...attitudes of the victors were also obscure. After the seven were dead, MacArthur granted freedom to all remaining "Class A" war criminals except two who were already on trial. MacArthur asked for a day of prayer throughout Japan...
Died. Hideki Tojo, 64, Japan's Premier at the time of Pearl Harbor; by hanging; in Tokyo (see INTERNATIONAL...