Word: hashimoto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening topic, "Japan Today," Tadamasa Hashimoto appealed to the U.S. "to trust our country, look upon us as a friend, and trade with us." Friendship with the U.S., he felt, is of great importance in feeding his overpopulated country, preventing communist gains among its people, and increasing its industry...
...Akiko Mori, speaking with Hashimoto, hilariously debunked the idea that Japanese women have attained full social equality. Their greatest problems are coping with fathers-in-law and making the most of their scarce leisure time...
Died. Kingoro Hashimoto, 67, onetime Japanese Imperial Army Colonel, who was implicated in the abortive 1936 "February Revolt," advocate of war against China and the West, imprisoned in 1948 as a "Class A" war criminal (released in 1955) of lung cancer; in Tokyo. Stocky, dynamic Hashimoto, whose narrow military training, ignorance of the outside world and hatred of foreigners led him to believe in an easy, speedy victory over Russia, Britain and the U.S., organized the superpatriotic Japan Youth Party in 1936, and with it as political leverage, instigated the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay (1937) with no effective discipline...
...Kingoro Hashimoto, 65, the colonel who, on his own initiative, ordered the 1937 shelling of three British gunboats in the Yangtze River and sank the U.S. gunboat Panay. Near war's end, Hashimoto exhorted his countrymen to make suicidal attacks. Incarceration did not ease the colonel's bitterness. Grim-faced as ever, he rasped: "I am angry from the bottom of my heart at the injustice and irrationality of the war-crimes trials. I feel strongly my responsibility for our defeat. I apologize deeply to the Japanese people...
...unit's heroes was a Japanese-American corporal named Hideo Hashimoto, who had spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp in the U.S. Hashimoto, a right-handed pitcher for his regimental baseball team, had crept out on the edge of the ridge, hurled grenade after grenade with deadly accuracy at the advancing Reds. In one attack, Hashimoto was throwing grenades at Red troops less than 20 yards away. When he ran out of grenades, Hashimoto pitched rocks...