Word: yamazaki
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interrogating prisoners of war. He remained less than a year before he was discharged, but in March 1949 he was back again as a correspondent for TIME & LIFE. His Five Gentlemen of Japan are real people: Emperor Hirohito; Fumio Shimizu, a wartime vice admiral, now an engineer; Tadao Yamazaki, a Tokyo newspaperman; Hideya Kisei, a steelworker; Sakaji Sanada, a farmer. In Author Gibney's hands, they are far more than sociological types-or slick stereotypes. Each of them has his own real problems; the Emperor is as much shackled by the deadweight of traditional reverence as Farmer Sanada...