Word: tojo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that June day five years ago, peace had seemed simply a problem of lashing shell fire, the stutter of machine guns, a man named Hitler and a man named Tojo. This June, children played on the half-buried landing craft. But peace seemed more elusive and infinitely more baffling, a matter of hard-held purpose in the face of provocation, hard-built strength in the face of shadowy threat...
...Santa Cruz Church, the Manila Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert since the Japanese invasion. In the audience were eight G.I.s from Brooklyn who never forgot the concert or its conductor: Vienna-born Dr. Herbert Zipper, who had survived Hitler's Dachau and Buchenwald, and two of Tojo's Philippine hellholes...
Many said: "Kinodoku, kinodoku (pity, pity)." That was what many had said during the war when U.S. prisoners had been led through Tokyo's streets. Tojo & friends, through their thought control police, had tried then to stop the expression of kinodoku. It persisted, even for them...
...Japanese went to shrines to pray. It was hard for a Westerner to learn what they really felt. Some said the Japanese were not praying for the dead war lords, but for peace in the world. It was no less difficult to learn the final attitudes of the condemned. Tojo left a poem...
Died. Hideki Tojo, 64, Japan's Premier at the time of Pearl Harbor; by hanging; in Tokyo (see INTERNATIONAL...