Word: tojo
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...Americans at war, Hideki Tojo epitomized all that was evil in Japan's ruling military clique. As the commander of the Imperial Army and Prime Minister (1941-43), he personally ordered the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that provoked U.S. entry into World War II. This week, as Japan prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of its unconditional surrender in that war, the memory of Tojo has all but faded to most Americans and even to many Japanese...
...their goods. Today the Japanese have come closer to establishing an informal Co-Prosperity Sphere than ever before (see map, page 27). The difference is that the latter-day wako carries a soroban (abacus) instead of a sword and wears blue serge instead of the khaki of General Hideki Tojo's Imperial Army...
...first serious fighting occurred between police and students, he said, "This was the most exciting day of my life since my tenth birthday, when I rode a roller coaster for the first time." After he had become known statewide and was denounced by blacks as "Uncle Tojo Tom," he jokingly told reporters that he represented "yellow power" and that he was "Emperor of California...
Died. Ichiro Kiyose, 82, Japan's leading authority on criminal law, who nonetheless in 1948 lost to the gallows his most celebrated client, Wartime Premier Hideki Tojo, despite a stubborn argument that Tojo had merely acted in national self-defense; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...
...Eisaku. Sato's older brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* was the star of the family, graduated second in his class at Tokyo University law school (Sato was much lower). In 1941, Kishi became one of the youngest Cabinet ministers in Japanese history when, at 45, he became Hideki Tojo's Minister of Commerce and Industry...