Word: sugihara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. Protests came thick and fast: since Japan's constitution requires civilians in Cabinet posts, ex-admirals do not qualify. In the U.S. view, Nomura would have been a better choice than the man who actually got the Defense Ministry post; Arata Sugihara, a bureaucrat-turned-politician who has egged on Hatoyama to more and more flirtation with the Communist powers. Washington was pleased, however, with the retention as Foreign Minister of one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, who signed Japan's surrender on the Missouri in 1945. Shigemitsu is a sober, careful...