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	Korechika Anami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Korechika Anami (阿南惟幾 Anami Korechika, February 21st 1887- August 15th 1945) was a Japanese general in World War II.
		Some speak of him today as "the very model of a modern samurai." After many losses in battle, and the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the other leaders began to consider a new approach to the war; surrender was one of the options.
		Anami opposed this, and proposed instead that a large-scale battle be fought on the Japanese mainland that would cause many Allied casualties and allow Japan to elude surrender and perhaps even keep what it had conquered.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anami_Korechika (265 words)

	Anami Korechika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With a string of major battle losses and the U.S. destruction of Japanese cities from the air during 1945, Japanese leaders agreed that a new approach to the war was needed.
		But for Anami, this meant staking all on a great decisive battle on the Japanese mainland in which Allied casualties would be so high that Japan could escape surrender and perhaps even keep her conquests.
		Anami's arguments were overcome by a request from Japan's Emperor Hirohito for an immediate end to the war.
	www.doug-long.com /anami.htm (443 words)

	Anami Korechika - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anami Korechika (阿南惟幾, 1887-1945) was a Japanese general in World War II.
		Eventually, his arguments were overcome when Emperor Hirohito requested an end to the war himself, in which case Anami's supporters suggested that he either vote against surrender or resign from the Cabinet: Either of these moves would have stopped any Japanese surrender.
		Instead, he ordered his officers to concede, later saying to his brother-in-law, "As a Japanese soldier, I must obey my Emperor." On August 14th, 1945, he signed the surrender document with the rest of the Cabinet, then committed seppuku early the next morning.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Anami_Korechika (262 words)

	Korechika Anami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anami Korechika (阿南惟幾, 1887 - 1945) was a Japanese general in World War II.
		Anami opposed this, and proposed instead that a large-scale battle be fought on the Japanesemainland that would cause many Allied casualties and allow Japan to elude surrender and perhaps even keep what it hadconquered.
		Eventually, his arguments were overcome when Emperor Hirohito requested an endto the war himself, in which case Anami's supporters suggested that he either vote against surrender or resign from the Cabinet:Either of these moves would have stopped any Japanese surrender.
	www.therfcc.org /korechika-anami-167317.html (246 words)

	Anami Korechika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anami Korechika (阿南惟幾 1887 - 1945) was a Japanese general in World War II In April of 1945 he was made War Minister of Japan giving him great in Japan as a member of the Cabinet and the Supreme Council for the of the War.
		Anami this and proposed instead that a large-scale be fought on the Japanese mainland that cause many Allied casualties and allow Japan elude surrender and perhaps even keep what had conquered.
		Eventually his arguments were overcome when Emperor Hirohito requested an end to the war in which case Anami's supporters suggested that either vote against surrender or resign from Cabinet: Either of these moves would have any Japanese surrender.
	www.freeglossary.com /Korechika_Anami (331 words)

	by tim1965 (Printing ... And Supplies) \| LjSEEK.COM
		War minister Anami acknowledged that a bomb had been dropped, but refused to believe that it had been an atomic bomb; he demanded that Japan's leading atomic scientist, Dr. Yoshio Nishina, be sent in to investigate.
		Anami understood that the greatest danger facing the government was a military coup.
		Anami said he would think about it, and the officers left believing that Anami was on their side.
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	Korechika Anami -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was known as the leader who detested the idea of surrender, and even ordered the arrests of those who talked of it.
		Eventually, his arguments were overcome when (Emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989)) Hirohito requested an end to the war himself; Anami's supporters suggested that he either vote against surrender or resign from the Cabinet.
		Instead, he ordered his officers to concede, later saying to his brother-in-law, "As a Japanese soldier, I must obey my Emperor." On August 14th, 1945, he signed the surrender document with the rest of the Cabinet, then committed (Click link for more info and facts about seppuku) seppuku early the next morning.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ko/korechika_anami.htm (241 words)

	Masataka Ida - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Masataka Ida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Told that Anami was preparing to commit seppuku, Ida informed the Minister of his intentions to do the same.
		Anami insisted that he live on, that it was more courageous to work for the rebuilding of Japan than to commit suicide.
		Anami killed himself, and Ida was placed under watch to make sure he did not do the same.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Masataka-Ida.html (651 words)

	Anami Korechika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anami Korechika (, 1887-1945) era un general japonés en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
		Anami opuso esto, y propuso en lugar de otro que una batalla en grande esté luchada en el continente japonés que causaría muchas muertes aliadas y permitiría que Japón eludiera entrega y quizás incluso que guardara lo que había conquistado.
		Eventual, sus discusiones fueron superadas cuando el emperador Hirohito solicitó un extremo a la guerra mismo, en la cual los partidarios de Anami del caso sugirieron que él cualquier voto contra entrega o dimita del gabinete: Cualquiera de éstos se mueve habría parado cualquier entrega japonesa.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/an/Anami%20Korechika.htm (267 words)

	Kazutoshi Hando, The Pacific War Research Society, Japan's Longest Day (Tokyo: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1968), pp. ...
		Anami and the two Chiefs of Staff were unable, apparently, to accept the idea of either defeat or surrender, both of which went against all their training; these proposals, thus, were aimed at minimizing, perhaps even denying, the fact of both defeat and surrender.
		Shimomura telephoned Anami, and in the course of their conversation he got the impression that Anami knew little or nothing about the statement but that extremely strong pressure was being applied by the younger officers.
		The Emperor received General Anami in audience, and the General-so his brother-in-law said later-reported that the Emperor had reprimanded him because of his "proclamation." Anami's explanation was that the Army would naturally have to go on fighting until the surrender became a fact.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/hando/hando.htm (11264 words)

	Korechika Anami - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Korechika Anami - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Korechika Anami (阿南惟幾 Anami Korechika, 1887-1945) was a Japanese general in World War II.
		The article about Korechika Anami contains information related to Korechika Anami and External Links.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Anami_Korechika (281 words)

	The YBBS - Hiroshima Arguments Rage 60 Years On (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		War Minister Korechika Anami contemplated defeat with equanimity and compared the potential destruction of Japan to the withering of a flower.
		This is because, while it is true that the bombs did not persuade Anami and his cohorts to give up arguing for resistance, they did not lead to the crucial intervention of Emperor Hirohito.
		And it was that address that brought even Anami to heel, though the war minister contemplated a coup and duly killed himself soon afterwards.
	yourbbsucks.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3563 (1279 words)

	American Experience \| Victory in the Pacific \| Transcript \| PBS
		Narrator: General Korechika Anami became War Minister in April and the head of the pro-war faction in the government.
		Yet Anami and the militarists, still confident in Ketsu-Go, favored adding three additional conditions: there would be no occupation, the Japanese military would disarm itself and the military would try its own war criminals.
		Anami's last act was that of a proud Japanese warrior who had fought his battle and lost.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pacific/filmmore/pt.html (10551 words)

	Air Force Magazine - April, 1994
		Anami could not bring himself to flatly defy the Emperor, but he continued to argue his position passionately.
		Anami was not part of the plot -- although his brother-in-law, Masahiko Takeshita, was a ringleader.
		The Anami faction continued to haggle, but at noon on August 14, the Emperor asked the cabinet to prepare an Imperial Rescript of Surrender.
	www.afa.org /media/enolagay/07-02.html (3294 words)

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		As Vice Minister of War in 1940, under Konoye, and a leading member of the Army, Anami was involved in power play which led to Tojo’s appointment as Prime Minister.
		Though as convinced as most leaders of the inevitability of Japan’s eventual defeat, he constantly delayed admitting this, having to save face for the army and to control his militant officers who desired a fight to the death of the whole of Japan.
		In the final days, a coup was brewing among these officers and Anami was not able to stop them as he was unwilling to join them.
	marina.fortunecity.com /reach/77/axispeople.html (1422 words)

	The Bomb Didn't Win It
		With 62 Japanese cities destroyed by firebombs and napalm, Japan was not overwhelmed by the destruction of one more.
		The army minister, General Korechika Anami, told the supreme war council that he would fight on.
		What actually brought about surrender was the combination of the Soviet Union's entry into the war on August 8 and the US decision to let Japan retain the emperor.
	www.rense.com /general67/bomb.htm (459 words)

	Defending the Driniumor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944
		Anami's command was responsible for the defense of western New Guinea, a strategic area controlling the southern approach to the Philippines and the Caroline Islands.
		Southern Army and IGHQ, however, disagreed with Anami's assessment and, rather than endorse the Hollandia attack, instead ordered Second Area Army to prepare against possible future Allied attacks in western New Guinea and the approaches to the Philippines and Palau, as well as against raids by Allied task forces against the western Caroline Islands.
		Anami still wanted the survivors of the two ill-fated divisions sent to his command.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Drea/Drea.asp (19797 words)

	Toshiro Mifune Reviews: The Emperor and a General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On August 14, 1945 at a meeting of Japan's government leaders, the Emperor recommended acceptance of the Potsdam declaration and urged his ministers to surrender to the Allies.
		The cabinet had been sharply divided: some members saw the futility of continuing the war and pressed for a quick settlement; the other faction, primarily those allied with War Minister Korechika Anami, insisted that the nation fight to the finish.
		But a group of fanatical young army officers devoted to Anami attempt a coup d'etat and try to prevent the Emperor's broadcast of surrender.
	www.sprout.org /toshiro/reviews/emperor_and_a_general.html (228 words)

	Masahiko Takeshita - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They believed that the costs of repelling an Allied land invasion would not be devastating, and that, ultimately, Japan would be better off under military rule, with his brother-in-law, Minister of War Korechika Anami as shogun.
		Takeshita had a close relationship with Anami, and was among the few who had the Minister's ear; Anami considered Takeshita one of his closest confidants, and so it was through him that the rebels gained much of their information and influence.
		Ultimately, however, Anami insisted that while he was sympathetic with the rebels' cause, he could not actively oppose the wishes of the Emperor.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Masahiko_Takeshita (487 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Japan's ambassador to China, Koreshige Anami, protested to the Chinese government, which downplayed the hostility and accused the Japanese press of exaggerating.
		Ironically, the ambassador is the son of the late General Korechika Anami, who commanded a division during the assault on China and was later minister of war.
		The general secretary of the Asian Football Confederations, Peter Velappan of Malaysia, raised the issue of the 2008 Olympics in a searing criticism of Chinese manners.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/edit/archives/2004/08/17/2003199098/print (671 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Strategy and Command: The First Two Years [Chapter 27]
		With the arrival of these units, and others, General Anami would have under his control two armies and a total of five battletested and fresh divisions, one of which, the 36th, was organized and equipped for amphibious operations.
		When Anami assumed control of the division it had only about fifty planes operational, and virtually all these were involved in local defense and escort missions in the 19th Army area.
		In General Anami's area alone, 100 new airfields, echeloned in depth and mutually supporting, were to be built.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Strategy/Strategy-27.html (6271 words)

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		On Truman's August 7th announcement that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima had been atomic, the Emperor's cabinet met (without the Emperor, as they were a separate entity) and wasted the day bickering.
		Speaking both in terms of ending the war and in terms of the Japanese saving face, Foreign Minister Togo argued that the new atom bomb: "drastically alters the whole military situation and offers the military ample grounds for ending the war." War Minister Korechika Anami did not concur: "Such a move is uncalled for...
		War Minister Anami claimed that the Army would not surrender unless it could remain completely intact during occupation, conduct its own war crimes trials and its own later disarmament, concluding by shouting through tears: "If not, we must continue fighting with courage and find life in death!".
	www.myrkul.org /docs/nagasaki.htm (3044 words)

	Decontextualization of Hirohito: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Further, Gen. Korechika Anami's (the Japanese army minister) continual aggressiveness and roar make a contrasting contribution to the pacifist image of Hirohito.
		Anami eventually commits the Japanese samurai's suicidal ritual called hara-kiri.
		However, it must have been easy for the Japanese to notice that the actor spoke extremely unnatural Japanese with funny intonation, putting too much emphasis on the explosiveness of his anger.
	www.utexas.edu /coc/journalism/Js363/hiroshima.htm (7484 words)

	An Inquest into the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the other side Anami would never surrender and Suzuki should have surrendered after Hiroshima.
		From the Japanese side, Anami refused to surrender just as any other soldier would, Suzuki tried to surrender but based on the Potsdam Declaration he could never do it.
		War Minister Anami refused to save his people by surrendering, and Prime Minister Suzuki looked down the face of destruction and decided his political career was more important than the lives of the residents of Nagasaki.
	shs.sps.lane.edu /trials/hiroshima (2516 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: BOOK REVIEW
		Furthermore, Japan’s entire Ketsu-go (“Decisive” Operation) strategy was predicated on keeping the Soviets out of the war so that Japan could draw the United States into an attack on the homeland—they correctly anticipated this would occur in Kyushu—and inflict heavy casualties on the invading forces.
		In fact, after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Army Minister Korechika Anami told the other members of Japan’s Supreme War Leadership Council (the Big Six) that the United States had 100 more such bombs and Tokyo might be next.
		Despite this harrowing bit of misinformation, Anami vowed to fight on, and none of the top leaders favored unconditional surrender.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/2005_07-08/Kuznick.asp?print (2374 words)

	The Last Raid
		General Anami choked on one phrase: "the war situation grows more unfavorable to us every day." If that were true, he cried, the army communiques had all been lies, and how could the emperor say such a thing?
		The words were changed to "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage," perhaps the most forlorn understatement of the war.
		Some reacted violently: Military policeman chopped off the heads of American prisoners in Osaka and Fukuoka, an admiral led 11 navy aircraft in a suicide flight to Okinawa, soldiers tried to kill the prime minister, and perhaps 1,000 officers, including General Anami, cut open their bellies in the ritual of seppuku.
	www.airspacemag.com /ASM/Mag/Index/1995/AS/tlrd.html (4617 words)

	For All Time - World War II (parts 1-34)
		Only the personal leadership of General Korechika Anami, Prime Minister since Tojo's fall after the American conquest of Formosa, has kept the nation's fighting spirit going on, defeat after defeat after defeat.
		With the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, Anami moves quickly, pulling out the reserve 19th Army and sending it to the port city of Niigata, acting under the assurances of Admiral Toyoda that the troops can be sent to reinforce Manchuria and Korea by cover of night.
		It is a difficult decision for Korechika Anami.
	foralltime.alternatehistory.com (19006 words)

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