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Died. General Kuniaki Koiso, 70, one of the fanatic militarists who led the Japanese Empire into war and destruction; of a chest tumor; in Tokyo, where he was serving time on a life sentence for war crimes. Wizened, jovial Warmonger Koiso commanded Japan's famed Kwantung army in Manchuria, earned the title "The Tiger" because of his cat's eyes and ruthless behavior as governor general of Japanese-occupied Korea...
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...
...face of it, neither the tiger tough ness nor the political agility of Premier General Kuniaki Koiso were of any avail. Four times in eight months of office he had staved off the inevitable by reshuffling his cabinet. Now he shuffled across the ancient moat to the Imperial Palace. Be hind the unmortared walls he bowed before Emperor Hirohito, confessed his failures, offered his apologies and the collective resignation of his cabinet...
Round of Wails. Now it was Baron Suzuki's turn to call on the Army extremists. As custom dictated, before naming his new cabinet, he chatted with ex-Premier Koiso and with fanatical ex-War Minister Field Marshal Gen Sugiyama. While making his round of visits, the sirens wailed, and he spent an hour or so in a shelter as U.S. bombers raked the capital...
...incendiary typhoon? Not long, thought some. There were rumors of peace bids in the making. But the war lords, disdaining whatever war-weariness might have come to industrialists whose factories were gutted and to civilians whose paper-&-bamboo homes were obliterated, had by no means had enough. Premier Koiso and his fanatical War Minister, Field Marshal. Gen Sugijama, drafted another emergency measure, pushed it through another emergency Diet. It ordered...