Word: fumimaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When fun-loving, beer-bibbing, golf-playing Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, 24, flunked out of Princeton (TIME, March 6), he expected to get what-for from his father, former Japanese Premier Fumimaro Konoye. The family's "face" was saved when Butch was appointed Dean of Japanese-sponsored Tung-wen College in Shanghai's French Concession. Last week, with flying colors, Butch passed an examination given by a conscription board and was admitted to the Japanese army...
...Gunther, as the author discusses his divinity, ancestry, poetry, wealth, family and advisers. After that, among many others, come the venerable, 89-year-old Prince Saionji, last of the Genro; jingoistic Baron Kuchiro Hiranuma, who as Premier has an earthquake-and-assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura, firms that control 62% of the total...
...west, the New Life Movement marked the day with a traditional fair, suitably modified for a China at war. The most patronized concession: a "beat the Japanese" booth where patriotic Chinese could throw balls at caricatures of such Japanese worthies as Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, his predecessor, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Minister for War Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki and Minister for Foreign Affairs Hachiro Arita...
...uprising of young army officers) and his daughter married into one of Japan's four wealthiest families. For long he has rebelled at the army's proposal; last week it was rumored that, for the sake of his conscience and his skin, he was getting out. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, golf-playing descendant of a long line of courtiers, has from the beginning disliked his job. For 19 months he and other moderates in his Cabinet have conducted a gallant, ineffective rearguard action against army-dominated colleagues. Premier Prince Konoye quit, so did Finance Minister Ikeda...
This news, coupled with the report that Britain would advance China $2,500,000, gave the Japanese pause. Since the war began Japan has dreaded more than anything else the possibility of united economic pressure from the U. S. and Great Britain. Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye hastily issued a long awaited statement on Japan's final aims in China. The statement, unusually moderate in phraseology where outside nations were concerned, was virtually an outline of Japan's peace terms. Premier Prince Konoye blandly announced that Japan sought no territory (that could be left to her puppets), no indemnity...