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Predizioni apocalittiche che ci prendono "One of his associates in the army, Ishiwara Kanji, was a convert to a Buddhist sect rooted in the teachings of the medieval monk Nichiren. He believed that Nichiren’s prediction of an apocalyptic future war destined to renew the world after first drenching it in blood would soon be fulfilled in a conflict between Japan and the US. For Tōjō, by contrast, loyalty to the imperial house seemed to answer all questions"
Predizioni apocalittiche che ci prendono "One of his associates in the army, Ishiwara Kanji, was a convert to a Buddhist sect rooted in the teachings of the medieval monk Nichiren. He believed that Nichiren’s prediction of an apocalyptic future war destined to renew the world after first drenching it in blood would soon be fulfilled in a conflict between Japan and the US. For Tōjō, by contrast, loyalty to the imperial house seemed to answer all questions"
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Tōjō was a stickler for the constitution. He condemned political violence at home, including the assassination of Japan’s prime minister by young military officers in May 1932 (they had hoped to murder Charlie Chaplin too, but at the last minute he postponed meeting the PM to go and watch sumo)
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His cabinet resigned on 18 July 1944 and a little over a year later Tōjō was receiving hate-mail from a newly liberated population. Why, his correspondents demanded to know, when their family members had been called up to die on distant battlefields, had Tōjō’s own sons been allowed to stay safe? He was an ‘ogre’ and a ‘brute’. He should just get on with it and kill himself. Tōjō had already resolved to do this, taking responsibility for his failures while avoiding the ignominious fate of Mussolini: summary execution, body dangled upside down next to a petrol station. He shot himself before American agents could arrest him. But emergency medical care, including six or seven blood transfusions, saved his life and set the stage for a final act.
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