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...others, Welfare Minister Chikahiko Koizumi and Education Minister Kunihiko Hashida of Tojo's Pearl Harbor Cabinet (and four unlisted officials) succeeded in killing themselves. Admiral Shigetaro Shimada told a nervous U.S. officer: "Be quiet-I don't suicide." Many surrendered voluntarily, either to U.S. officers or Japanese police. At week's end only ten were still at large...
...Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, the chubby, cherry-lipped little man who had steered Japan's Navy through its worst defeats, was sacked again. Already out of the Cabinet (Navy Minister), he was dropped from his No. 2 job: Chief of Naval Staff. His successor: Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, wealthy aristocrat and former mentor of the Emperor...
What would be the next stop on the road to Tokyo? Planning in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester Nimitz had a score of possibilities. Planning in Tokyo, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada had no possibilities at all. He had to wait for the blow, counter it if he could. Up to now his countering average was zero. His only asset was the fanatical willingness of garrison troops to die; their numbers and resources would increase as U.S. forces drove closer to his homeland. Saipan was but a sample of the Japs' determination to carry with them to death as many Americans...
...This week Tokyo announced that' the Empire's Naval Minister, Shigetaro Shimada, stocky, cherry-lipped architect of Japan's most recent naval disasters (TIME, July 3), had been dropped from the 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...
These disasters could not be blamed on dull, purse-lipped little Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, then, as now, His Imperial Jap Majesty's Navy Minister. It was not he but Admiral Osami Nagano, Hirohito's Chief of Naval Staff and thus top Navy planner, who was the first big failure in Japan's once glamorous naval history...