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 Lt. Lazarus said that no sections of the Japanese central liaison office are able to supply information concerning the missing Hata's whereabouts.

-O- WAR CRIMES PROSECUTORS ASK RIGHT TO INTRODUCE EXCERPTS IN EVIDENCE

The International Prosecution Section today requested the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for an order permitting introduction of excerpts of a document, rather than the entire document.

Prosecution said the document "The Way of a Subject" contains 100 pages, and that the Section wishes to extract only 10 pages from the book to be placed in evidence.

It was said that the book is the only one in existence, that all others had been destroyed by an order of the Ministry of Education at the cessation of hostilities, and that it would require 10 days and approximately 10,000 sheets of papers to duplicate the book.

The book was issued by the Ministry of Education in March, 1941, for distribution to teachers and students in the Japanese schools and for general distribution to the Japanese public.

Prosecution said the excerpts are being offered in order to prove type of propaganda used in Japanese schools was "in preparation of future wars."

Prosecution contends that no hardship would be inflicted upon the defense since the book already has been introduced into evidence and is available to all defense counsel for any examination they care to make.

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GENERAL HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES, PACIFIC Public Relations Office

16:30 1 July 1946 Press Release:

MAJOR AIRCRAFT FIRM, HOLDING COMPANY TO BE DISSOLVED

Proposed dissolution of the Fuji Industrial Co., Ltd., a major war-time aircraft firm and holding company, owned by five members of the Nakajima family, met with no objection today from SCAP.

Holding stock in 89 subsidiaries, the Fuji Industrial Company produced the Kamikaze corps suicide planes, and army and navy pursuit ships and bombers in its own 15 branch plants.

J. McI. Henderson, chief of the Anti-Trust and Cartel division of SCAP's Economic and Scientific section, said the dissolution will be accomplished through these steps:

First: Replacement of all present officers of the Fuji Industrial Company;

Second: Creation of completely new companies out of the 15 branch plants comprising the Fuji company;

Third: Dissolution of the Fuji company under the Commercial Code of Japan as soon as branch plants are reorganized into separate concerns; and

Fourth: Liquidation of the Fuji company's assets in its 89 subsidiaries.

Shares in the companies created out of the Fuji firm, as well as al [sic] shares it holds in subsidiaries will either be offered for sale to employes [sic] of the various firms, or turned over to the newly-created Holding Liquidation commission, expressly created by Imperial ordinance to liquidate the Zaibatsu of Japan.

The commission then will dispose of the stock, not sold to employes [sic] of the Fuji company or its subsidiaries, in a manner to be subsequently determined. It will insure payment of outstanding debts of the Nakajima family's holding company, and carry out the dissolution with a minimum of disturbance to the various plants and subsidiaries whose present operations are considered essential to Japanese economy, Mr. Henderson added.