Author Sato Masaru delves into the heart of the "Showa Empress," Tsuji Toshiko!

Tsuji Toshiko, a fixer known as the "Empress of the Mainstream Conservatives," started out as an actress and became a politician's secretary. From 1951 onward, she was highly valued by Yoshida Shigeru and dealt on an equal footing with successive prime ministers, including Ikeda Hayato and Sato Eisaku. After becoming a "shadowy powerhouse" in the Kōchikai party, she swayed the political situation by carrying out covert operations behind the scenes of the Ohira administration. In this video, former Ministry of Foreign Affairs chief analyst and author Sato Masaru discusses the ties between antisocial forces and politics, and the reality of illicit funds, which Tsuji Toshiko had kept quiet about during her lifetime. What was her relationship with Kodama Yoshio like?

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