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General Hideki Tojo got a language lesson while awaiting trial. When the lesson was over the ex-Premier knew just about as much as anybody else. Just what did "Hubba, hubba" mean, he asked a visitor from the American prosecution staff. " 'Hurry up,' " obliged the visitor. "Ah, so," murmured Tojo, "... I always thought it meant 'Remember Pearl Harbor...
During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Roxas had many intimate friends among the Japanese, including General Wachi, former "Director General" of the Jap administration in the Philippines. General Tojo himself sent three top Jap army medical corps men from Japan to attend to his friend Roxas...
More obliterating than death was the continued life of Hideki Tojo. But for the Battle of Midway, he would certainly have been the Man of 1942. His war had been the coldest and most calculating of all, his machinations the most arrogant, his nation's defeat the most ruinous. When he tried to commit suicide he failed again; at year's end he lived on, saved from death by U.S. blood, shunned by his countrymen, still able to read that U.S. strategists had decoded his every intention, that he had never really had a chance...
Significantly, there was one thing that the pollsters did not find: any American who advocated, even in the privacy of an anonymous dialogue, that the U.S. use its secret bombs as a Hitler or a Tojo would certainly have used them. Americans, precariously holding the bomb's precarious secret, were more afraid of it than any have-not nation had reason...
...Prince Fumimaro Konoye, thrice Premier of Japan, and Tojo's predecessor. He had been working ostentatiously on a new, liberal constitution for Japan. Last week, friends reported him "lost in meditation" at his villa in fashionable Karuizawa...