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Under the U.S. quake rumbling up from the south, the Government in Tokyo trembled like a seismograph's needle. For the fourth time in three weeks Premier General Kuniaki Koiso, who is dubbed "The Tiger" and has a catlike talent for landing on his political feet, again shuffled his feet and his Cabinet. He accepted the resignation of portly, aging (68) Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, lover of bridge, ex-governor of Formosa, onetime naval commander in chief, and president of the powerful Imperial Rule Assistance Political Society (Japan's totalitarian party). The Admiral did not sail into retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tremblings | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Shadow Before | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS INDIES: JAPANESE IN JAVA | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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