Word: toshio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Nagoya's curious local pride: "We had almost 25,000 workers here. In five minutes, nothing was left. No factory in Japan was so beautifully bombed." The Aichi plant, which was 95% destroyed, is being sold for scrap metal to anyone that will carry it away. Youngish Toshio Takahashi, the plant manager, says softly: "It still seems like a dream to see all this. I suppose we should tear it down quickly, but that would cost too much money...
...Toshio Machida, a former prison guard, now accused as a war criminal, wrote to one of his former prisoners, ex-Sergeant George J. Peil of New Orleans, asking for intercession to save his life. Replied ex-Prisoner Peil last week...
Japan awarded its highest military decoration-the Order of the Golden Kite-to 955 officers and men for feats in the Pacific, to 3,031 more who had fought in China. The list included such ranking officers as Vice Admiral Yukichi Yashire, Rear Admirals Yukio Kato and Toshio Otake, Major Generals Chikegi Usui and Tateo Kato. The interesting thing was not that Japan had so many heroes, but that the heroes were dead when they received the Order of the Golden Kite...
...Harsh Toshio Shiratori, former political adviser to the Foreign Office, who has vocally loathed Britain and the U.S. for years...
...elimination of Mr. Matsuoka enabled Japan to pursue a foreign policy more free of the influence of Germany and Russia. .Several of Foreign Minister Matsuoka's pro-Axis appointees, including Axis Stooge Toshio Shiratori, resigned from the Foreign Office. This freedom will be most useful in the case of Russia, since it will allow Japan to worsen relations against the time when she may attack eastern Siberia...