01095nam a2200241Ia 4500 CTU_111126 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 323000 952.03092 S561 Shiroyama, Saburo War criminal : The life and death of Hirota Koki Saburo Shiroyama ; translated by John Bester Tokyo Kodansha Internationa,New York 1977 On December 23, 1948, seven men climbed the thirteen steps to the gallows. Six of them were members of the defeated Japanese military. The seventh was a civilian- Hirota Koki- a stonemason's son who had risen to become both foreign minister and prime minister. His life was that of an honest man caught up in the cogs of face; his trial was a demonstration, in Justice William O. Douglas's words, not of justice, but of political power, and he died in silence. Statesmen Biography Japan M.Loan Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ