Evening star., 1944-07-22
koiso, Long Advocate
|0f Jap Expansion,
lis Named Premier
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Gen. Kuniaki Koiso, former
governor general of Korea and
long an advocate of Japanese ex-
pansion, has been named Pre-
mier of Japan in a new cabinet
in which Admiral Mitsumasa
Yonai became Navy Minister, it
was announced In a Domei news
agency dispatch broadcast from
Tokyo today.
Domei said Yonai also would
serve as temporary deputy Prime
Minister"
Heading the first new cabinet In
Japan since the attack on Pearl
Harbor, Koiso succeeds Gen. Hideki
TOTO, whose government resigned
five days ago almost simultaneously
with the first Japanese acknowl-
edgement of the loss to American
forces of Saipan, a base that puts
the Super Fortresses within bomb
ing range Of Japan's main cities.
Two Hold Overs in Cabinet.
In the new cabinet there were
two hold overs from the TOTO cabi-
net.
Besides Koiso and Yonai the
broadcast listed these other cabi-
net members:
Foreign Minister and Greater East
Asia Minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu;
War, Field Marshal Gen. Sugiyama;
Home Affairs, Shigeo Odachi; FL
nance, Sotaro Ishiwata: Justice,
Hiromasa Matsuzaka; Education,
Harushige Ninomiya: Welfare, Hisa-
tada Hirose; Munitions. GinJiro Fu-
jiwara; Agriculture and Commerce,
Toshio Shimada: Transportation
and Communications, Yonezo Mae
da; Ministers OF State AfYiairs,
Chuji Machida, Hideo Yodama and
Taketora Cgata.
The new 64-year -old Premier was.
chief of staff OF the Kwantung army
in Manchuria before he became Gov
ernor-general Of Korea. This Is the
same army group to which TOTO be-
longs. 1t has played a leading role
in japanese affairs since the inva-
sion of Manchuria in 1881 and since
then constantly has prodded Japa-
nese governments to adopt a more
vigorous expansionist program.
Koiso Is Former Minister.
koiso was Overceas Minister In
Admiral Yonai's cabinet that held
ONCE from January to July. 1910,
shd in the Kiranuma cabinet.
Tokyo previously announced EN-
peror Hirohito had ordered Yonai,
former Premier, to coporeate with
Koiso in the forming of new
government. 1t ,intimated the two
would serve as co-premiers.
The ONCE of War Information
interpreted Yonai's presence in the
cabinet as presumably lending full
Navy approval to the government
jointly selected by the two men.
Yonai served as commander in chief
of the combined Japanese feet in
1885 and was Navy Minister
from 1897 to 1899.
Shigemitsu. who remains as For
eign Ministerf, takes over the addi-
tional portfolio of Greater East Asia
Minister formerly held by Kazuo
Aoki. This portfolio, hitherto kept
apart from that Of the Foreign Min
ister, encompasses the problems
connected with the administration
Of Japanese-occupied areas.
Sugiyama Was Chief of Staff.
Sugiyama. who was removed as
army chief of staff in February, sue.
ceeds to one of Tojo's jobs.
Fujiwara. the new Munitions Min
ister. Is one of Japan's leading in
dustrialists, being associated with
the giant Mitsui industrial CONNER
cial combine.
AS Mayor of Tokyo. Odachi. the
new Home Affairs Minister, played
an important role in the program
begun during the TOTO regime to
prepare for mass raids through the
partial evacuation of government
buildings and vital industrial estAb-
lishments from large cities.
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