Word: kuniaki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army man, General Kuniaki Koiso, 64. Koiso has two nicknames. He prefers to be known as the "Singing Frog"-a tribute to the way he sings old folk tunes when he has had enough sake. But he is better known as the "Korean Tiger" because of his brutalities while Governor of Korea...
First the Japanese proposed sending as negotiator General Kuniaki Koiso, who, after a previous visit to the Indies, had publicly made some abusive remarks about the Dutch. The Dutch said he would not be acceptable. The Japanese sent instead a Cabinet Minister, Ichizo Kobayashi of Commerce and Industry. To receive him fittingly, Queen Wilhelmina cabled from London raising Hubertus J. Van Mook. Director of the Department of Economic Affairs, to the rank of Cabinet Minister of the Dutch Government-in-Exile...