Word: yukio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitution gave Japan a pattern for democracy. The Japanese are now faced with the responsibility of making practice fit the pattern. Aged statesman Yukio Ozaki warned that the Japanese moral code-"based on murder and falsehood"-must be radically altered, predicted that three generations would be needed to educate Japanese to the meaning of the new constitution. Said Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, as it prepared to publicize and interpret the constitution's text and meaning: "Only when we have created a state or society in which we can get along perfectly well without knowing a single article...
...long silence emerged the grand old man of a bygone Japanese liberalism-indomitable Yukio Ozaki, 85, ex-Cabinet Minister, ex-mayor of Tokyo, Diet member since 1890, lifelong champion of parliamentary government. He had survived terrorist threats, Government persecution and the corrosion of "thought-control." Now stone deaf, Ozaki last week called on his Diet colleagues to resign rather than "persist in past practices of blind obedience to the Government...
Liberal Supporter. What other Japanese groups support the Alliance is not .clear. "The manifesto mentions only Yukio Ozaki. ... He is called the 'greatest liberal statesman.' " Ozaki, now about 90, is widely known in Japan as an independent in politics. He has been a lifelong advocate of Japanese collaboration with Russia. He supported this idea when Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicholas, continued to support it after the Bolsheviks came to power. In the 1942 Japanese elections he was so popular that the Government did not dare to void his candidacy, and the Supreme Court acquitted...
Japan awarded its highest military decoration-the Order of the Golden Kite-to 955 officers and men for feats in the Pacific, to 3,031 more who had fought in China. The list included such ranking officers as Vice Admiral Yukichi Yashire, Rear Admirals Yukio Kato and Toshio Otake, Major Generals Chikegi Usui and Tateo Kato. The interesting thing was not that Japan had so many heroes, but that the heroes were dead when they received the Order of the Golden Kite...