Word: giichi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the week General Baron Giichi Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan, called General Viscount Shirakawa into his Cabinet as War Minister, whereupon the pugnacious Viscount, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, immediately despatched 15,000 additional troops to Shantung. Thus it appeared certain that the present Japanese occupation and intervention will continue for some time...
...political thunderbolt, craftily prepared, was hurled by Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, last week, in an effort to weaken the Opposition parties by discrediting their extreme left wing, the Ronoto or Farmer-Laborites. The vital import of the Ronoto is that its two Deputies give the Opposition a theoretical plurality of two over the Government parties, in the newly elected Diet (TIME, March 5) which will shortly assemble. Numbers: Opposition, including Ronoto, 228; Government, 226; and Independents...
Born. To Premier Baron Giichi Tanaka, Premier of Japan...
...Tokyo, one Giichi Kitazawa, confectioner, sat brooding; glowered across the table at his sweetheart. Disappointed in love, he swallowed large quantities of eggs, curry, rice; drank heartily of sake-whisky; fell unconscious, died...
...composition of the next ministry were made public. The Ministry that resigned was composed of: Premier, Count Gombei Yamamoto; Home Affairs, Viscount Shimpei Goto; Foreign Affairs, Baron Hikokichi Ijuin; Communications, G. Inukai; Education, Keijiro Okano; Justice, Kiichiro Hiranuma; Treasury, Junnosuke Inotuye; Navy, Admiral Hyo Takarabe; Army, Baron General Giichi Tanaka; Railways, Ichiji Tamanouchi...