Word: nomura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discernible, immediate effect on Japan last week was concerned, the Potsdam offer of surrender terms (TIME, Aug. 6) was a flop. The Suzuki Cabinet had specifically rejected the terms. Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, the dry old man who was talking peace in Washington on Pearl Harbor day, called the terms "the height of impertinence." The controlled Japanese press and radio played them up as though they were good for home morale. An "extremely indignant" civilian letter-writer to a Japanese newspaper denounced the Potsdam declaration for "scheming to alienate the military and civilians." Said he: "The war's responsibility rests...
...Cabinet. But it was not an out-&-out sacking. Shimada will keep his other job as Chief of Naval Staff, thus be able to devote full time to finding tactical remedies for the Empire's critical plight in the Pacific. His successor as Naval Minister: Admiral Naokuni Nomura,* expert in submarine and torpedo techniques...
...confused with one-eyed Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, who smilingly conferred with Secretary Hull while Pearl Harbor was attacked...
...imperturbable Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's pre-Pearl Harbor Ambassador to the U.S., went the task of reassuring Japan's laborers of ultimate victory. But the Admiral, who well knows U.S. capabilities, thinly disguised his misgivings. In his speech to Kawasaki laborers three points could be discerned...
...Shanghai's Hongkew Park, a Korean patriot threw a bomb at a review stand filled with Japanese officials. Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) lost a leg; Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, later Ambassador to Washington, lost...