Word: yoshida
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Young Hutton had annoyed the prison's commander, General Eiichi Kino-shita, by refusing to sign a statement that he had been humanely treated. The general turned him over to one Sergeant Bunzo Yoshida. Sometimes Yoshida's lessons would be taught with water, sometimes with electric shock, sometimes with just the butt of a rifle or the heel of a boot. Then one day Yoshida trussed his naked prisoner up with his head between his legs and his arms strapped behind him, and left him alone. Five days later his fellow prisoners found Hutton stark crazy. Next...
...last week Professor Yasumaro Shimojo walked into a large, dirty classroom at Nippon University in Tokyo. Grey old Shimojo had just been named Education Minister in Premier Shigeru Yoshida's precarious new cabinet...
Surveying his class in political economy, Shimojo gave his 30 students a lesson in practical politics: "Public opinion predicts that the Yoshida government will be short-lived. Therefore after about three months I shall return...
...Huddle. The next cabinet will probably be formed around the conservative Democratic Liberal party, led by stuffy, blundering ex-Premier Shigeru Yoshida. His personal unpopularity with other Japanese conservatives, as well as with progressives and with SCAP, might induce the Liberals to put up some more acceptable front for Yoshida...
...important to them as their own rulers. Maybe more so. "Whether the next U.S. President is isolationist or internationalist,"* wrote Tokyo's Asahi, "will have far more effect on the actual livelihood of the Japanese than the question of whether the next [Japanese] Premier is Shigeru Yoshida or Hitoshi Ashida...