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...left at 13. He spent nearly two years studying Japanese and Chinese classics, passed his Foreign Service examinations brilliantly, was launched on almost two decades of diplomacy. By 1917 his fleetness of wit and tongue, his drive, brought him to be Secretary to Foreign Minister Count Shimpei Goto; the next year he was Secretary to Japan's first commoner Premier, Takashi Hara. In 1919 he was a Japanese delegate to the Paris Peace Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: So Delicate Situation | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...which they were both riding, Dew, coming up on the outside, crowded Taylor. Taylor gave Dew the whip. Both finished out of the money. They walked back to the jockey room side by side; the moment they reached the doorway, they went at one another in an old-fashioned goto. "Just a flare-up of competitive spirit," explained Chief Steward Tom Thorp, fining each boy $50 instead of setting them down for the rest of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Photo Finish | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Looking like a well-fed Chinese war lord stripped to his trunks, almond-eyed, flat-faced Tony Galento waddled out of his corner and started to swing his short arms in an old-fashioned goto. He missed five out of every six swings. Before the chuckling spectators had time to get accustomed to this primitive technique, one of Galento's punches met Nathan Mann's chin -squarely and effectively, for Galento's fifth successive knockout. It had taken Champion Joe Louis longer (three rounds) to dispose of Nathan Mann last winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Punch | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile Sergeant Honda was put under guard. Home Minister Fumio Goto, responsible for the police of all Japan, was moving Heaven and earth to hush the scandal. He almost succeeded. Seventy-two hours after the wrong turn no Japanese paper yet dared mention it. Then Sergeant Honda, closely guarded to prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: God's Detour | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...determination to reform Japan remains unchanged!" cried Prisoner Eitan Goto passionately. "I am prepared to die seven times, but I will" bomb seven times, if necessary, until the country is purified. I regret I caused trouble for the Emperor and disturbed public opinion, but I am prepared to die. I ask to be punished according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chaplin & Assassins | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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