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	TIME.com: Son of a Samurai -- Mar. 4, 1940 -- Page 4
		But a few years before Mitsumasa was born Japan was suddenly turned from a feudal to a capitalistic state.
		Yonai's mother, also of samurai blood and, being a woman, even less prepared to earn her daily rice than her husband had been, nevertheless buckled down as a seamstress and sewing teacher.
		While Mitsumasa was in school, he got a job copying documents, each week gave his pay envelope to his mother, unopened.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,763577-4,00.html (618 words)

	Punjab Kesari NewsDetails
		Mitsumasa Yonai told an adviser to the Japanese ruling elite that the two events provided a good excuse to surrender at a time when local hostility to Emperor Hirohito and his government was increasing rapidly.
		The conversation was among the first published complete translations from the Japanese of accounts of key high level meetings and discussions in Tokyo leading to the end of the war, the archive said.
		They were released on Friday on the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima as part of a comprehensive on-line collection, including declassified US government documents, on the first use of the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific.
	www.punjabkesari.com /frmNewsDetails.aspx?uid=8644 (326 words)

	Biography Y (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A career naval officer, Yonai was a conservative anti-militarist.
		After TOJOs removal in July 1944 Yonai declined the premiership buy agreed to Navy minister.
		Yonai had a decisive role on the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War in convincing the council to accept surrender.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/people/peopley.htm (95 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Suzuki and Admiral Yonai Mitsumasa, the Navy minister, were both cautiously supportive; both wondered what the other thought.
		In the middle of the meeting, news arrived that Nagasaki, on the west coast of Kyūshū, had been hit by a second atomic bomb.
		Suzuki, Togo, and Admiral Yonai favored Togo's one additional condition to Potsdam, while Generals Anami, Umezu, and Admiral Toyoda insisted on three further terms that modified Potsdam: that Japan handle her own disarmament, that Japan deal with any Japanese war criminals, and that there be no occupation of Japan.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Surrender_of_Japan (4775 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The US atomic bomb attacks and the Soviet Union's entry into World War II that led to Japan's surrender were "God's gifts," the Japanese navy minister was quoted as saying at that time in documents released on Friday by the US National Security Archive.
		Navy minister Mitsumasa Yonai told an adviser to the Japanese ruling elite that the two events provided a good excuse to surrender at a time when local hostility to Emperor Hirohito and his government was increasing rapidly.
		The translations were released on the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima as part of a comprehensive online collection, including declassified US government documents, on the first use of the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/front/archives/2005/08/07/2003266728/print (458 words)

	Second World War Books: Review
		Experience would show, however, that the stability and damage-control calculations were optimistic and that the armored citadel was not invulnerable.
		In its concluding chapter, the book describes how the triumvirate of conservative senior admirals -- Yonai Mitsumasa, Yamamoto Isoroku, and Inoue Shigeyoshi -- finally succumbed to the influence of their aggressive subordinates and Army counterparts to plan a devastating and far-reaching assault on the possessions of America, Britain, and the Netherlands.
		Despite decades of preparation for the "single decisive battle" in the western Pacific, the IJN instead chose to open the naval war against the United States with a secret foray and surprise raid against Pearl Harbor.
	stonebooks.com /archives/980514.shtml (1115 words)

	USUSC MS195:
		In his position as the Chief of the Naval General Staff, Toyoda participated in the Imperial Conferences concerning the Japanese surrender.
		Initially the Minister of the Navy, Mitsumasa Yonai, wanted Toyoda appointed the Navy Chief of Staff because of the influence he might have over Yoshijiro Umezu, the Army Chief of Staff, in the decision to end the war.
		Toyoda joined Umezu in his protestations against the Potsdam Proclamation of 26 July 1945, which demanded the demobilization of the Japanese armed forces, the allied occupation of Japan, and the trial of Japanese war criminals.
	library.usu.edu /Specol/manuscript/collms195.html (798 words)

	Chronology 1940
		In his annual budget message, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to provide $1.8 billion for national defense, new appropriations of almost $1.2 billion, and the development of an annual production program of 50,000 aircraft.
		Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai formed a new cabinet for the Japanese government.
		The Trade Treaty of 1911, between the U.S. and Japan, expired and Secretary of State Cordell Hull informed the Japanese government that trade would continue on a day-to-day basis.
	www.indiana.edu /~league/1940.htm (4387 words)

	Critical Asian Studies
		To some of these officials, the bomb was a convenient, face-saving excuse for getting them out of the war without having to admit their domestic weakness.
		217-18) quotes one member of the Supreme War Council, Yonai Mitsumasa, as saying on August 12 that the atomic bombs were "gifts from the gods."
		This way we don't have to say that we have quit the war because of domestic circumstances.
	www.bcasnet.org /articlesandresources/article10_7.htm (460 words)

	Why Did the Japanese Delay Surrendering?
		That question weighed on their minds when the Potsdam Declaration arrived (July 27-28), calling on them to surrender unconditionally or face immediate destruction.
		Yet they rejected the four-power ultimatum, feeling as former prime minister and navy "moderate," Admiral Yonai Mitsumasa, said to his secretary on July 28, "There is no need to rush."
		Ultimately, what mattered most was where each of them, and the institutions they represented, stood as a result of an unconditional surrender.
	hnn.us /articles/12947.html (2181 words)

	Hexapedia - Yonai Mitsumasa (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.arizona-gigapop.net) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Yonai Mitsumasa (米内光政; March 2 1880–April 20 1948) was a Japanese politician and the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from January 16 1940 to July 22 1940.
		Educated at the Naval Academy at Etajima, he served in Russia from 1915-1917, and was commander of the Imperial Fleet in 1936 and 1937.
		In the last few weeks before Japan's surrender, he sided with Prime Minister Suzuki Kantaro and Foreign Minister Togo Shigenori in support of acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration; these three were opposed by Minister of War Anami Korechika, along with the Chiefs of Staff Admiral Toyoda Soemu and General Umezu Yoshijiro.
	www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Yonai_Mitsumasa (160 words)

	NHK Internet Global Court: 'Nuclear Arms and the Human Race' (1997)
		But they were vacillating and couldn't prevail over a military that was determined to keep going even if that meant, as a navy official urged at one meeting, "sacrificing 20 million Japanese lives."
		The atomic bombings broke this political stalemate and were thus described by Mitsumasa Yonai, the navy minister at the time, as a "gift from heaven."
		Without the atomic bombings, Japan would have continued fighting by inertia.
	www.users.cloud9.net /~bradmcc/hiroshima.html (4006 words)

	TIME, Japan's Mitsumasa Yonai, 8/30/37
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	www.antiqnet.com /detail,time-japans-mitsumasa,740925.html (66 words)

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