Word: yonai
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...been since May, this six-member Supreme Council remained split down the middle on the questions of whether and how to end the war. One faction of three, headed by Prime Minister Suzuki and joined by Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo and Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yonai, favored negotiating for peace on the most favorable terms still remaining; the other, led by War Minister Anami, argued that defeat and death would be more honorable than surrender and occupation and that Japan had no choice but to fight on. The debate continued in a Cabinet meeting that ran more than eight hours...
Outstanding among the new Ministers: hypochondriacal Prince Fumimaro Konoye, 53, ex-Premier who resigned two months before Pearl Harbor, now Minister without Portfolio; wily Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, 65, ex-Premier and a holdover from the Suzuki Cabinet, now Navy Minister; one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, 58, an Army favorite, another Cabinet holdover, now Foreign Minister. The War Ministry went to the new Premier...
...Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, temporary deputy Premier and Minister of the Navy. Primarily a Big Navy man, Yonai is a popular mediocrity, awesomely known to his diminutive countrymen as "The White Elephant." As Japanese go, he is a great strapping fellow-5 ft. 7 in. in his sandals...
Fewer Kicks. On the Emperor's order, Yonai shared with Koiso the responsibility for organizing the new Cabinet. One result: the Navy may now hope to be kicked around less by the bossy Army. Yonai could always cite his record in the Hiranuma government. He resisted the formation of the Axis at that time, postponed it a year by insisting: "The Japanese Navy belongs to the Emperor; it is not for hire, by Hitler or anyone else...
Japanese police arrested 38 of the plotters - but not Colonel Hashimoto. One month later Premier Yonai fell, Prince Konoye took over the Government, and Colonel Hashimoto was made director of the Imperial Rule Assistance Movement, central directing agency in the "new national structure." There was no reason for the fiery Colonel to withdraw his admonition: "Watch...