Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. General Yoshijiro Umezu, 66, onetime chief of the Japanese army's general staff (he signed the surrender), convicted as a war criminal and given a life sentence; of cancer; in Tokyo...
Many said: "Kinodoku, kinodoku (pity, pity)." That was what many had said during the war when U.S. prisoners had been led through Tokyo's streets. Tojo & friends, through their thought control police, had tried then to stop the expression of kinodoku. It persisted, even for them...
Thirteen Steps. It had been unseasonably warm in Tokyo, but on the last day it turned cold. The seven were notified of the execution time 15 hours beforehand. Tojo said, jokingly, in English: "Okay, okay." He thanked the prison warden for decent treatment, and said he had been afraid that he would be snatched from bed and executed so quickly that he would not have time to express properly his gratitude to the authorities...
...their way to work, Tokyo citizens read the news, mostly from billboards slapped up around the city by newspapers. To Westerners, their faces showed nothing. The predominant sentiment expressed was "Hotto shita ne"-which, colloquially, means "I'm glad it's all over...
Died. Hideki Tojo, 64, Japan's Premier at the time of Pearl Harbor; by hanging; in Tokyo (see INTERNATIONAL...