Word: eimei
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...Japanese back-scratching known as amakudari-literally, descent from heaven. It refers to the practice whereby retiring top bureaucrats are quickly hired as top executives of the companies they once regulated. Yusuke Kashiwagi, a former Finance Ministry official, is now president of the Bank of Tokyo; Eimei Yamashita, a former trade official, is a managing director of Mitsui & Co.; there are many more...
...office boy in the Imperial Japanese Consulate at Nanking stopped at the desk of Vice Consul Eimei Kuramoto fortnight...
Late that evening his family grew worried and telephoned the consulate. The consulate waited an hour or two before leaping into action. Part of Eimei Kuramoto's job in recent months had been writing firm but minor complaints on specific acts of anti-Japanese boycotting and agitation. Had he been kidnapped? Had he been murdered? Japan's Navy did not wait to find out. The gunboat Fushimi already lay in the river opposite Nanking. Within a few hours the destroyer Ashi joined her. Downstream the cruiser Tsushima swung around. Admiral Sunjiro Imamura on his flagship Idzumo...
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