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...Died. Okinori Kaya, 88, Finance Minister in General Hideki Tojo's World War II Cabinet; of intestinal hemorrhages; in Tokyo. Although sentenced to life imprisonment by the Far Eastern war crimes tribunal, Kaya spent only ten years in prison and made a political comeback by winning five consecutive terms in the Japanese legislature. An advocate of close relations with Taiwan and South Korea, he insisted that "Communism means only a dog's life...
...crimes suspect"-he was General Tojo's Commerce and Industry Minister-Kishi claims to have been seized by a "burning desire" to see Japan rebuilt according to democratic principles. Yet, as Premier, he has surrounded himself with a kitchen Cabinet composed of men like bull-necked Nationalist Okinori Kaya, 69. Kaya, who was Tojo's Finance Minister, spent ten years in Sugamo as a "Class A war criminal," now argues that Tojo's chief mistake lay in starting war before Japan had an adequate industrial base and sufficient oil supplies...
...Okinori Kaya, 66, Finance Minister from...
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