Word: ugaki
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. General (ret.) Kazushige Ugaki, 87, onetime (1925-31) War Minister of Japan, Foreign Minister (1938), Governor General of Korea (1931-36), member of the Japanese Diet since 1953; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Acting on the Emperor's mandate in 1937, peace-minded Ugaki made a stab at the premiership, was blocked by rightist warlords who distrusted him for shearing the army of four divisions...