Word: naruhiko
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...Emperor summoned his kinsman, pug-chinned Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, 57, to form a new Government. The appointment was doubly notable: it was made without the customary consultation between throne and elder statesmen; it was the first time ever that a member of the royal house had become Premier of Japan...
...Prince Naruhiko Higashi Kuni, distant cousin of Emperor Hirohito, commander of Japanese forces which raped Nanking, Home Defense Chief who in 1942 threatened to execute captured U.S. airmen "if guilty of inhumanities." But no imperial prince has ever headed a Japanese Government. If Higashi Kuni broke the precedent, it might still all opposition, since no voice would dare cry out against an imperial prince. Such a move would also make it impossible for the imperial family to evade responsibility for ultimate defeat. Or the last-minute choice might be someone else. Japan was going through the political wringer-probably...
...post of Commander in Chief of Home Defense, Premier Tojo, mindful of the Imperial prestige, appointed a relative of the Emperor, General Prince Naruhiko Higashi Kuni, 54. In 1937 Prince Higashi Kuni, who must worry about Japan's highly combustible cities, commanded Japanese troops at the capture, rape and massacre of Nanking...