Word: okinori
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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