Word: tojo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo's oldest and biggest English-language daily, World War II officially ended last week. In 1942, the Japan Times was ordered by Tojo's bullyboys to change its title, substitute Nippon-the name by which Japanese know their country-for its Western-style Japan. Last week, after 14 years as the Nippon Times, the paper took its old name back to signify a "rededication to the high principles and purposes of the free press...
...Japanese and imposed upon a defeated nation soon after its surrender, it has long chafed Japanese pride. "Constitution Day," says Education Minister Ichiro Kiyose, "is not a day of glory but one of national humiliation." Kiyose was defense counsel at the war crimes trial of Militarist Prime Minister Hideki Tojo (who was hanged...
...Teiichi Suzuki, 66, Tojo's wartime planning board president and onetime lieutenant general...
...People," says the slight, greying little Japanese, "used to call me the Dr. Goebbels of Manchukuo." For Premier Tojo and the warmakers of Japan he arranged good-will delegations to Hitler and Mussolini, became propaganda chief of Manchukuo, then of all Japan. At war's end he expected to be tried as a war criminal...
...postwar punishment by the U.S. military government, but banished from political life, grateful Tomio Muto became an active Christian for the first time. He helped famed Christian Leader Toyohiko Kagawa start a magazine called Christian News (present circulation: 30.000). But when his old boss Tojo was hanged by the Allies in 1948, says Muto, "I felt the rope. Now I knew I must work for Christ. I definitely decided to become a minister...