Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fumio Tanaka and Shosuke Matsumoto, both 24 and friends since boyhood, attended the same high school, fought with the Japanese forces, and are now completing their economic studies at Tokyo's Keio University. Their common background even includes the purge of both their fathers: Tanaka's because he was a wartime cabinet member, Matsu-moto's as a general. However, young Tanaka is a conservative, young Matsumoto a Communist. They typify the two vigorous parties in Japan-and the way Japanese youth is torn...
Last week, Tanaka and Matsumoto talked with TIME Correspondent Sam Welles, who cabled back this report of their conversation...
...Tanaka: "Japanese workers are leading a very miserable life. What Japan needs most of all is a capitalism sensible enough to survive. That is important...
Died. Count Nobuaki Makino, 88, Japan's liberal elder statesman and longtime adviser (Keeper of the Privy Seal, 1925-35) to Emperor Hirohito; in Tanaka, Japan. Forced out by the militarists, he made a comeback after V-J day, exerting potent political influence through his son-in-law Premier Yoshida...
During the trial, Tanaka testified three times for the prosecution, twice for the defense. On the stand he was witty, self-possessed, contemptuous of his surroundings, making full use of his amazing memory for details. Peremptorily he picked the few defendants on whose behalf he wished to intercede. Of Field Marshal Shunroku Hata he said: "I will testify for that man. . . . He's a fool." Of ex-Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu: "My personal good friend. He, together with myself, has always been opposed to war." But most other defendants he decided to condemn-admittedly for reasons of personal revenge...