Word: eiji
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Hirota recently received from Mr. Grew and British Ambassador Sir Robert Clive the English Speaking Powers' third series of vigorous protests against the new oil monopoly laws of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo (TIME, Nov. 5). For the third time cocky Mr. Hirota's still cockier spokesman, famed Eiji Amau snapped: "We cannot admit any contention which ignores the sovereign independence of Manchukuo...
...Japanese Foreign Office, famed Outspokesman Eiji Amau has been threatening denunciation as only he can threaten. Last week in Tokyo the Supreme Military Council and the Board of Marshals and Admirals convened. They decided in august assembly to hold in abeyance Japan's decision on denunciation until Nov. 18 when the Son of Heaven, His Majesty Emperor Hirohito, returns from Grand Military Maneuvers. That gave the Tokyo corps and their Governments a fateful deadline...
Diplomats are supposed to be a tactful tribe, but in Tokyo owl-eyed Mr. Eiji Amau, famed Official Spokesman of Japan's Foreign Office, continues to carve out of tactlessness a great career. Many Japanese expect to see him Premier some day. Last week Official Spokesman Amau fairly surpassed himself when mockingly he announced that if the Great Powers dislike Japan's far-sighted and ingenious oil policy, "they can appeal to China...
...this slap by Japan in China's face, Japan also slapped at the Great Powers, signatories of the Washington and London naval treaties. She did not, to be sure, stage Japanese naval maneuvers off San Francisco or Liverpool. But in Tokyo the official Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Eiji Amau, a great adept at diplomatic nose-thumbing, called in white correspondents, gave an impressive exhibition...
...more discreet and softspoken. Minister Hirota's method of being discreet and soft-spoken while carrying on Japan's policy of expansion is to supply the words and let anonymous spokesmen voice them. Last week excitable Tokyo papers were demanding the resignation of his best-known, obedient Eiji Amau...