PREVIEW: From my two-hour radio conversation with Professor Bass: this excerpt describes how worried the Allies became when the defiant Hideki Tojo walked to his hanging death crying out, "Banzai!"
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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1/8: Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia Hardcover – by Gary J. Bass
https://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Tokyo-World-Making-Modern/dp/1101947101
1942 Shokaku underattack by aircraft from Yorktown
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| 0:32.0 | This excerpt from a two-hour conversation with Professor Gary Bass, |
| 0:37.0 | his new book, Judgment at Tokyo, World War II on Trial in the Making of Modern Asia. |
| 0:42.0 | This is the part where Tohjo, Hideki Tohjo, the Prime |
| 0:46.4 | Minister, the man who was accused of making war and continuing the war, the Class A criminal, was led to the gallows, crying Banzai, Banzai, and other military figures |
| 0:59.9 | being led to the gallows also cried out with him Banzai Banzai echoing throughout the prison. |
| 1:05.7 | It didn't just mean charge what it means and why it was extremely threatening to the Allies, to those in charge of Japan right then, |
| 1:17.0 | General MacArthur in the United States, extremely threatening the professor explains, it has to do with the emperor and the fiction of the emperor at that moment 1948. |
| 1:29.0 | Here's Professor Bass. |
| 1:31.0 | They don't want to talk about it at the time. It is so Bonzai which is a battle |
| 1:38.1 | cry. It's short for long live his majesty the emperor. And the army men are leading chance of it as they are about as |
| 1:46.7 | they are being led to the gallows soon after midnight in this macabre scene. |
| 1:53.0 | And there are there are |
| 1:56.0 | official onlookers for the execution |
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