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Died. General Yoshijiro Umezu, 66, onetime chief of the Japanese army's general staff (he signed the surrender), convicted as a war criminal and given a life sentence; of cancer; in Tokyo...
...first aboard was the silk-hatted Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, limping on his wooden leg, leaning on his cane and clutching at the ship's ropes as he pulled himself up the stairway. The second was the dour, solemn-faced Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Yoshijiro Umezu-his chest covered with ribbons and hung with gold braid, his eyes blank and unseeing...
Vice Admiral Yoshijiro Hamada: "America's participation in the European war will automatically involve Japan. . . . Statesmen will try to prevent such a calamity, but the circumstances are beyond their control. There can be no settlement until Japan and America have a showdown...
...Nishio's Chief of Staff. Command of the Kwantung Army, the able if imaginative force which since May 11 had been making the barren plains of Manchukuo a bramble of practically uncountable wrecked Russian planes, was given to one of the Army's best diplomats, Lieut. General Yoshijiro Umezu, already Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo. It looked (but no one dared say so, since Japanese are as unpredictable as shooting stars) as if Japan wanted to talk gently with Russia and deal roughly with China...
...racial traitor in this oblique Japanese sense was Chinese General Shang Chen, sent to Tientsin last week to replace dismissed General Yu. General Shang popped around at once to pay a "courtesy call" on Tientsin's Japanese garrison commander. Lieut.-General Yoshijiro Umezu who hospitably opened bottle after bottle of the best champagne, put on a drinking bout with lusty toasts "to amity...
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