Word: tojo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Osaka-born Schuichi Kusaka (TIME, Sept. 20) has my vote for a permanent position at Smith College, or any other institution that has the foresight to hire him-and I'm being trained to shoot, stab or chop Tojo's men first and talk afterward...
Premier Hideki Tojo had warned Japan that she was on the threshold of "emergency" (TIME, Oct. 4). Heeding his stern voice, the Cabinet last week obediently voted...
...pays 30% tax on his movie ticket, a 30-60% tax on his lunch, a 200% tax on his geisha fee.) > Business "control organs," which, under a truce between Big Business and the Army, regulate production, wages and hours, will be drastically reformed. > Holidays will be curtailed. Tojo's Fears. Of the 2,900 words in Tojo's address, Italy was not one. But the Italian collapse, Tojo knew, did more than remove an ally. It Also foreshadowed stronger Anglo-U.S. pressure in the Pacific, and dented Japan's morale. ("Just one severe bombing of Rome...
Uneasy Japan. Tojo's decrees were but the latest step in a long campaign of regimentation. The Emperor himself has become a whip with which the Army urges the worker to still greater effort, the soldier to still greater sacrifice...
...even these devices failed. Last fortnight, the Dai Nippon Press Association warned that "all antinational movements will be crushed." As long ago as last summer Tojo instructed the prefectural governors: "People should not express anxiety and dissatisfaction. . . ." On orders from Tojo, the Government banned all meetings except those it sponsored. The Minister of Agriculture decreed: "Dissatisfaction in the villages must be wiped out. ..." And the Tokyo radio, chiding those who grumbled about food hardships, declared...