The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-13
Cabinet Shoke-Up Started
Minister og0t0
 0usted; Round-Wp Of War Crinnin0Is Underway; Tojo
Recovering

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Stan COrreSpandentt
 Tokyo, Sept. 1S - (uPl Japan busted Taket0ra Ogata, first and so far the only member of the present cabinet to be named a war criminal, as propaganda min~ ister today and formally dis solved imperial general head quarters.
 The action came less than 24 hours after MacArth1lr listed Ogata as one of seven leaders of the notorious, n1il- itaristic Black Dragon sO- ciety wanted for trial. Jap- anese sources said two other leaders listed were dead.
 Black Dragon
 The Japanese announcement in- dicated that Ogata was retaining for the present his concurrent poBt as chief secretary of the cabinet.
 Japanese sources earlier oeulea that Ogata never had been con- nected with the Black Dragon So- ciety.
 Named to succeed him as propa- ganda minister-also known aA president of the information board was Tatsuo Kawai, Q career dtp- lomat who was minister to Australf la at the outbreak of the war. Inc Japanese obviously hoped he would be more acceptable to the Altes than Ogata.
 Kawai was sworn into office at the Imperial Palace at ?. n. t1 a. m. EWT).
 Other Movements
 Other developments included:
 1. Japanese Foreign Ministers Mamoru Shigemitsu called on Maey Arthur at 3 p. rn., perhaps to notify him of Kawai's appointment.
 2-Former Premier Gen. NlNekl Tojo, Japan's No. 1 war criminal appeared well on the road to rseoy= cry from his botched suicide at@ tempt Tuesday. He no longer pleaa= cd with doctors to let him d1e Nzz4 his condition was described e ''Fery satisfactory"
 3.-American military pnliDs halted their roundup of war czim- inals named by Macarthur and granted a Japanese request for psr~ mission to deliver the accused men in good health"
 4.-Shigenori Togo, T'ojo's foreign minister at the time of Pearl EaT- Dor and No. on the list Of 41 var criminals. was revealed to have gone to the northern Honshu resort 0E Kulzawa because of poor health" 5.-Lt. Gen. Shigemcri K1rodas Japanese commander in the Philip pines in 1943-44 and No. lS on thu list. told a United Press Correspozl- dent he did not know why he WAS accused of war crimes, but was ready to surrender.
 6.-Radio Tokyo said MacArt1ur gave permission for Japanese nir~ ways to resume service on four lines Friday to expedite the Allied occtt- patton of Japan.
 7.-The Japanese g0vernmDnt notified MacArthur that all lJ.Q0O students at naval colleges and at- tendance schools, now on gzlauleK vacation, had been dismissed.
 The official Japanese Dolaei i agency said Imperial General Heed- quarters-the brain trust in Jap~ ans prosecution of the Pacific whk was abolished formally as of noon today ell p. m. Tuesday, EWT) ln accordance with MacArthur's oT~ ders.
 At 2 D. m., Domei said. Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu, chief of the army general staff; Admiral Soemu To- yoda, chief of the navy general staff; Gen. Sadam Shimomura, var minister, and Admiral MitsUmasa Yonai, Navy minister, proceeded Q the Imperial palace and reported to Hirohito on the abolition Of xNA- perial headquarters.
 Umezu an hour later, DoEnel saia. announced demobilization oe staff members and simultaneously sent instructions to this effect to vaxt4 ous unit throughout Japan e weil as in overseas areas.
 Arrests Soon
 The decision to permit Japanese police to round up the remainder us the wanted Japanese war criminals was announced by the Eigth army, The Japanese will be given Q lew days to complete the arrests before American officers take further 4c@ tion.
 Filipinos on the war criminal Nzt, however, probably will be teA4n
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