Word: oshima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against humanity." But Prosecutor Kee nan (who looks like W. C. Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with an American stenographer. Hiroshi Oshima, wartime ambassador to Germany, affected the dandy, with white pocket handkerchief, smart bow tie and black-ribboned pince...
...decoding messages from Japan's Ambassador Oshima in Berlin, often reporting interviews with Hitler, given our forces invaluable information on German war plans...
Walter Funk, president of the Reichsbank, was found in the midst of a covey of Japanese embassy personnel, which also included Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima...
...launched, The Cigar last week sent more than 900 B-29s against Japan. A first force of more than 400 set huge, billowing fires in the naval fueling station and synthetic fuel factory at Tokuyama, the big oil refinery at Otaki, and the oil storage installations on Oshima (biggest in the home islands). They also flogged four airfields on Kyushu and Shikoku. Fighter opposition was timid, but there was heavy flak from Jap warships. Nevertheless, not one of the big bombers was lost...
...Free Man. By 1943's fall, Professor Sakimura came to certain heretical conclusions: Germany's economic position was not nearly so strong as the Nazis pretended or Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima believed. The United Nations were winning the war. Inevitably, his own country's anachronistic feudal system would give way. Japanese like himself ought to fight for their ideas, break with their Government, dissociate themselves from a wrong and losing cause...