Evening star., 1945-04-08
Togo Again Appointed
Jap Foreign Minister;
Command ReshuffIed
By the Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO. April 7. -
Former Foreign Minister Shigenori
Togo, who helped frame the Russo
japanese neutrality pact which the
Soviet Union repudiated Thursday
has been reappointed to that post
in Japans third war cabinet, Tokyo
Radio confirmed late tonight.
The cabinet. headed by Baron
Kantaro Suzuki. was formed today
in a shower of American air bombs
anC installed in Imperial Palace
ceremonies held under black cloud
of naval defeat.
Togo. also named to the post of
Greater East Asia Affairs Minister,
was not present for the rites, how
ever. He and Naoto Kohiyama,
president of the South Manchurla
Railway who Tokyo said is to be-
come minister of transportation and
communications, were en- route to
Tokyo. Previous announcements
said the transportation ministry
would be headed by Admiral Teijiro
Toyoda, munitions minister.
High Command Reshuffied.
The War Ministry Immediately an
nounced a reshuffle of the japanese
Army high command, the Tokyo
radio said, and Suzuki warned his
countrymen that the very basis Of
our empires existence will be threat
ened if the situation is allowed to
pass as it has been.
The Tokyo radio said Field
Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, war min
lister in the Koiso cabinet. and Field
Marshal Shunroku Hata were ap-
pointed commanders of the army
command and Gen. Masakuzu
Kawabe commander of the air
force.
The 77-year- old Suzuki said the
war had reached a crucial state
and expressed deepest humiliation
over American victories which had
allowed the enemy to take posses
sion of an integral portion of the
empire"
Every individual man and woman
of our l00,000000 people must help
build the kind of fighting force
capable of striking at the enemy
and protecting our land from the
invaders" Suzuki said.
Domei, japanese news agency.
earlier had reported that Suzuki,
successor to Premier Gen. Kuniaki
koiso, personally took the portfol-
los Of foreign minister and Greater
East Asia minister.
New Members Listed.
The Japanese news agency also
reported a previously unmentlOned
name in Suzuki'S cabinet-Gen. JirO
Minami, president of the Imperial
Japanese Political Association, to-
talitarian political party Minami is
a minister without portfolio.
Suzuki appointed Gen. Korechlka
Anami as war minister and Admiral
Mitsumasa Yonai navy minister.
Anami and Yonai represent their
respective service cliqueS and had
the approval of the powerful Japa-
nese war lords Anami recently was
appointed director general of Army
aviation headquarters.
Domei said Horimasa Matsuzaka.
minister of justice in the Koiso
cabinet, would continue in that
post.
The japanese agency listed the
other new cabinet members as fol-
lows:
Admiral Teijiro Toyoda, minister
of munitions and also minister Of
transportation and communica-
tiOnS.
Toyosaku HiroSe. finance.
Genki Abe, home affairs.
Tadahiko Okada. welfare.
Kozo Ota. education.
Tadaatsu Ishiguro, agriculture and
commerce.
Vice Admiral Seizo Sakonji and
Hyogoro Sakurai, state ministers.
DR.. Hiroshi Shimomura, state min
lister and president of the board
of information.
Hisatsune Sakomizu, chief cabinet
secretary.
Chokkyo Murase. chief of the leg
islative bureau.