Word: eiichi
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Young Hutton had annoyed the prison's commander, General Eiichi Kino-shita, by refusing to sign a statement that he had been humanely treated. The general turned him over to one Sergeant Bunzo Yoshida. Sometimes Yoshida's lessons would be taught with water, sometimes with electric shock, sometimes with just the butt of a rifle or the heel of a boot. Then one day Yoshida trussed his naked prisoner up with his head between his legs and his arms strapped behind him, and left him alone. Five days later his fellow prisoners found Hutton stark crazy. Next...
Baba. In Tokyo the new Finance Minister, successor to assassinated Greatest-Japanese-Finance-Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, is that departed statesman's wily stooge, Mr. Eiichi Baba. As governor of the Government-controlled agricultural bankers' bank the Nippon Kwangyo Ginko since 1927, ingratiating Eiichi Baba has made the most of opportunities to become friends with the Radical-Militarists. The Army is almost entirely of peasant stock and absolutely resolved that exploited and oppressed Japanese rustics shall now get their innings. In Tokyo last week it was considered more than likely that wily Stooge Baba had sold the Army some...