Word: koizumi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others, Welfare Minister Chikahiko Koizumi and Education Minister Kunihiko Hashida of Tojo's Pearl Harbor Cabinet (and four unlisted officials) succeeded in killing themselves. Admiral Shigetaro Shimada told a nervous U.S. officer: "Be quiet-I don't suicide." Many surrendered voluntarily, either to U.S. officers or Japanese police. At week's end only ten were still at large...
...papers were full of shocked, incredulous, hat-tearing letters to the editor. Once a New Orleans Jack-of-all-journalism, the late Lafcadio, master of delicate lyrical prose, had won his greatest fame as a writer on Japan. He had become a Japanese citizen, taken the name Yakumo Koizumi and a Japanese wife, begot three sons and a daughter. More than one letter last week suggested that his sons might now be killing American soldiers.* People got so excited because the Maritime Commission named a New Orleans-built Liberty ship the Lafcadio Hearn...
...pound class: Fuller (H) pinned Koizumi in 6:57, with an arm lock and body chancery...