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Pearl Harbor Days. In Manchuria, Kishi found himself among friends and relatives. His uncle ran the Manchurian railways; Kishi brought over Steelmaker Aikawa to take charge of factory construction, and became closely connected with General Hideki Tojo, commander of the Kwantung army. Returning to Japan in 1939, Kishi could say complacently: "Manchurian industry is my development. I have an infinite affection for this industrial world I have created." Today, Kishi's lost "creation" provides arms and economic muscle for Red China...
Marriage Revealed. Mitsue Tojo, 40, who has lived in seclusion since her father, Japan's World War II Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, was hanged as a war criminal in 1948; and General Shigeru Sugiyama, 56, chief of staff of Japan's Defense Agency; she for the first time, he for the second...
Planning a study trip to the U.S. was the pretty daughter of Japan's late Dictator Hideki Tojo, who declared war on the U.S. in 1941 and was hanged for war crimes in 1948. Bright-eyed Kimiye, 26, a graduate student of international politics at Hosei University, wants to earn a doctorate, preferably at Columbia University. For her master's degree she is finishing a 300-page master's thesis on "The Rise of Nationalism in India...
...enemies, making a pun on his name, call him ryō kishi-meaning, roughly, "one who tries to keep a foot on both banks of the river." During the three years he spent in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison as a "war crimes suspect"-he was General Tojo's Commerce and Industry Minister-Kishi claims to have been seized by a "burning desire" to see Japan rebuilt according to democratic principles. Yet, as Premier, he has surrounded himself with a kitchen Cabinet composed of men like bull-necked Nationalist Okinori Kaya, 69. Kaya, who was Tojo's Finance...
...clearing house for a largely U.S.-financed $1 billion Asiatic development fund. Understandably enough, many of the nations Kishi singled out to benefit from these plans are suspicious that what the Japanese really have in mind is a revival, along economic rather than military lines, of Tojo's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...