Word: yasuda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wondered how the power of mass dismissal on ideological grounds might be used once the occupation had ended. But among the Japanese newspapermen the appeals of the discharged Communists met with little success, and few believed the Communist assertion that innocent people had been fired. Said balding, stocky Shoji Yasuda, managing editor of Tokyo's Yomiuri: "These people have been under surveillance for a long time and there's no mistake." The general public, conditioned by the Korean war and previous occupation directives against Japan's Communists (TIME, June 19), took the news with a shrugging "Tozen...