Word: kantaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, 80, Hirohito's Polonius and Premier on V-J day; of a liver ailment; in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. A cautious navyman, lie was hated as a "moderate" by the military jingoists, who left him for dead in the 1936 young-officer insurrection, hounded him into hiding after the 1945 surrender...
Prime quarry of the undercover assassins was the 77-year-old Premier who led Japan into surrender, Admiral Kantaro Suzuki. For more than a month the Admiral had been a fugitive, his next hiding place unknown even to his family. Last week a group of U.S. and British correspondents had a rendezvous with Suzuki...
Domei described the scene at which Emperor Hirohito decided to surrender to the Allies: "On the personal initiative of His Majesty, an historical conference was held before the Throne at the Imperial Palace. . . . The conference was attended by Premier Baron Kantaro Suzuki and all other ministers...
...Premier Kantaro Suzuki held another emergency meeting with his Cabinet, conferred with Japan's elder statesmen, ex-Premiers Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Admiral Keisuke Okada, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Koki Hirota, Generals Hideki Tojo and Kuniaki Koiso. He called on the Emperor Hirohito, bowed reverentially, and reported, according to Radio Tokyo, on a "general jurisdictional matter...
...weapons for the kill. Vast areas of industrial Japan were in ruins from bombing. A more & more hermetic blockade from sea and air was closing in. In Okinawa the U.S. forces were only 325 miles from the home archipelago. From Siberia fell the lengthening shadow of Russia. Cried Premier Kantaro Suzuki: Japan's crisis "is the greatest since the Mongolian invasion...