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Word: masakazu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kawabe's Counter. With an estimated three to six divisions operating in four columns, Lieut. General Masakazu Kawabe two weeks ago descended on Imphal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Double Pay-Off on the Border | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...Burma, the Japs last week gave "independence." The gift came all tied up in pretty strings and boxed "within the framework of Japan's co-prosperity sphere": Lieut. General Masakazu Ka-wabe, Commander in Chief of Japanese forces in Burma, abolished his military administration; members of the "Burma Independence Preparatory Committee," established by the Japs six weeks earlier, were called to a meeting; the Committee quickly named itself a "National Assembly," and appointed wily, womanish Dr. Ba Maw Premier of Burma. It only remained for Ba Maw to sign a treaty of alliance pledging Burma to military, political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Freedom in a Frame | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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