Word: suzuki
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Domei described the scene at which Emperor Hirohito decided to surrender to the Allies: "On the personal initiative of His Majesty, an historical conference was held before the Throne at the Imperial Palace. . . . The conference was attended by Premier Baron Kantaro Suzuki and all other ministers...
Died. General Korechika Anami, Army bureaucrat and War Minister in the Suzuki Cabinet; and Vice Admiral Takejiro Onishi, originator of Kamikaze ("divine wind," i.e., suicide) tactics; both by harakiri, induced by the Japanese surrender; in Tokyo...
Five hours after Emperor Hirohito broadcast to the nation, the Suzuki Cabinet resigned. "The new situation," said the aged departing Premier, "requires new men with fresh ideas...
Outstanding among the new Ministers: hypochondriacal Prince Fumimaro Konoye, 53, ex-Premier who resigned two months before Pearl Harbor, now Minister without Portfolio; wily Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, 65, ex-Premier and a holdover from the Suzuki Cabinet, now Navy Minister; one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, 58, an Army favorite, another Cabinet holdover, now Foreign Minister. The War Ministry went to the new Premier...
...Premier Suzuki's Cabinet took control of the People's Volunteer Corps from the Army and Navy. War Minister Anami ordered his Kwantung troops to fight to the death (Moscow said they were surrendering in droves). A Jap torpedo hit a U.S. warship off Okinawa, and Admiral Nimitz ordered the hovering Third Fleet, silent for two days, back into action (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...