Word: tojo
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World War II. Invited to join militaristic Premier Tojo's wartime Cabinet, Kishi served for three years as Commerce and Industry Minister, resigned in 1944 after a showdown with Tojo over military strategy (Minister Kishi wanted to sue for peace if the U.S. landed at Saipan). Arrested by the U.S. in 1945 as a suspected war criminal and put into Tokyo's grim Sugano Prison, Kishi mopped floors, cleaned latrines, had "plenty of time for soul-searching" until his release in 1948 (he was never brought to trial). Kishi regards his prison term as the turning point...
...Japan set out a generation ago to bribe and bayonet its way to domination over what Tokyo's propagandists called the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," an ambitious civil servant named Nobusuke Kishi became an economic administrator in Manchukuo, then Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Tojo Cabinet, and finally wound up in jail for three years after World War II as a war-criminal suspect. He emerged convinced that though the means had been inept, the aim remained the only solution of Japan's pressing economic problems...
...been a shrewd backstage manipulator in Japanese politics since long before Pearl Harbor. In the early days of Japan's burgeoning Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, he was one of occupied Manchuria's top economic czars. As former Minister of Commerce and Industry in militaristic Premier Tojo's wartime Cabinet, he was clapped into jail by the allied occupation forces on suspicion of being a war criminal, later released without trial. "When I found out I was not to be indicted or hanged," he said, "I began to think about the rest of my life...
...heart ailment; in Yugawara, Japan. Careerist Shigemitsu was an early advocate of expansion into China, but wanted no part of a war with Britain or the U.S. He had little to say in Japan's World War II government until 1943, when apprehensive Premier Tojo wanted a moderate Foreign Minister, gave him the post. Railroaded into the war crimes trials by the Soviets (who blamed him for 1938-39 Manchurian border skirmishes), Shigemitsu got a seven-year sentence, served 4½ years, bounced back into politics in 1950, last year negotiated a peace treaty with Russia, a few months...
...embargo on shipments of strategic goods to Red China. He then offered the Foreign Ministry to his chief Liberal-Democratic rival for the premiership, conservative Nobusuke Kishi, 60, onetime economic czar of Manchuria, one of whose electoral handicaps was the fact that he was a member of the Tojo Cabinet at the time of Pearl Harbor...