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Taketora Ogata

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President of the Cabinet Information Bureau (1944-45); Chief Cabinet Secretary (1945) · Japan

On the regime page: Empire of Japan, 1937 to 1945

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“An active press was essential for maintaining the fighting spirit of the people.”
Paraphrase Usually said to come from: Ogata Taketora, statement to the Diet as Minister of State in charge of the Information Bureau, reported in the Asahi Shimbun, 9 September 1944
Appears in a linguistics paper (ERIC ED421885, Contrastive Analysis of Japanese Wartime and Peacetime Press Discourse) as a paraphrase ('declared before the Diet that ...') citing the Asahi of 9 September 1944. The Asahi report or Diet record was not seen, so no direct wording can be published.
“He would try to make the best use of his experience as a newspaperman and intended to provide reporters with all information given out by the government.”
Paraphrase Usually said to come from: Ogata, address to the board of the Cabinet Information Bureau, 15 August 1944 (reported in US State Department biographic files released by the CIA Reading Room)
Reported in third-person summary in the biographic file for Ogata Taketora (CIA Reading Room). The file itself could not be opened from this environment (access blocked), and the summary is not a verbatim quotation.