Word: tojo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marriage Revealed. Mitsue Tojo, 40, who has lived in seclusion since her father, Japan's World War II Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, was hanged as a war criminal in 1948; and General Shigeru Sugiyama, 56, chief of staff of Japan's Defense Agency; she for the first time, he for the second...
Planning a study trip to the U.S. was the pretty daughter of Japan's late Dictator Hideki Tojo, who declared war on the U.S. in 1941 and was hanged for war crimes in 1948. Bright-eyed Kimiye, 26, a graduate student of international politics at Hosei University, wants to earn a doctorate, preferably at Columbia University. For her master's degree she is finishing a 300-page master's thesis on "The Rise of Nationalism in India...
...enemies, making a pun on his name, call him ryō kishi-meaning, roughly, "one who tries to keep a foot on both banks of the river." During the three years he spent in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison as a "war crimes suspect"-he was General Tojo's Commerce and Industry Minister-Kishi claims to have been seized by a "burning desire" to see Japan rebuilt according to democratic principles. Yet, as Premier, he has surrounded himself with a kitchen Cabinet composed of men like bull-necked Nationalist Okinori Kaya, 69. Kaya, who was Tojo's Finance...
...clearing house for a largely U.S.-financed $1 billion Asiatic development fund. Understandably enough, many of the nations Kishi singled out to benefit from these plans are suspicious that what the Japanese really have in mind is a revival, along economic rather than military lines, of Tojo's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...China to the U.N. [June 10]. Would the Foreign Policy Association have asked in 1938: How long can the U.S. effectively attempt to bar the admission of Manchukuo to the League of Nations? Would Harper's, Atlantic and the New Republic have insisted on doing business with Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini in the name of coexistence with Fascism? Liberals would have us adopt policies toward de facto Communist states which they vehemently opposed when applied to de facto Fascist states...