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...Where Is Koga? On both Choiseul and Bougainville, Allied landings were made on relatively undefended beaches, near but not too near Japanese strongholds. Allied amphibious forces under the command of Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson did their job unmolested except by a few hit-&-run air attacks. Enemy airfields in the area had been literally knocked out by a sustained air campaign. By week's end, the Japanese Fleet had not reacted to the advance in any way. General Douglas MacArthur, a relative newcomer to the delights of naval warfare, said: "If the Jap Fleet comes out I will...
...KOGA: "Chaplin is a popular figure in the United States and the darling of the capitalist class. We believed that killing him would cause a war with America, and thus we could kill two birds with a single stone...
With his four stars, Tommy Hart outranks his opposite number in the Japanese Navy, Vice Admiral Mineichi Koga. Only Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and Admiral Osami Nagano, Chief of the Naval General Staff, boast equal status...
...sharpened by constant irritation. The best sections of his book are such frolicsome ones as those in which he describes the passing fads in Japanese suicides (belly-ripping, jumping into volcanoes, drowning). Most important are those in which he discusses the Army fascists and fanatics like Sublieutenant Kiyoshi Koga, who testified in court that he had plotted to assassinate Charlie Chaplin. Koga's reason: "Chaplin is the darling of the capitalistic class. We thought that killing him would bring on war with the United States...
Perfectly composed, the troop of assassins sat in court, each with his head completely covered by a basketwork hood, as is the Japanese rule when capital crime is involved. Alert and proud of his patriotism, Sub-Lieutenant Seishi Koga rose to testify: "We thought that a war with America was needed to rehabilitate the Japanese national spirit. We planned to blow up Premier Inukai and Mr. Chaplin together. It was only when some of us were arrested and we had to hurry our preparations to kill Premier Inukai that we gave up our plan to kill the American...