Word: hachiro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under experienced Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, foreign relations were actually picking up a little. The danger of an immediate U. S. embargo was past, and Japan was successfully finding new markets and sources in South America. Last week a new trade treaty with Uruguay was approved, an Argentine economic mission reached Tokyo for discussions, and Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela were on the docket for similar explorations...
Great copycats are the Japanese. Last July the U. S. formally denounced its trade treaty with Japan. Last week Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, in language he might well have picked up from U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, denounced the Japanese-Netherlands treaty of arbitration and conciliation. The U. S.-Japanese treaty expired six months after denunciation; so will the Japanese-Netherlands treaty...
...Takao Saito said the country was tired of war. Then Kiroku Oguchi said some of Japan's shortages and hardships could be avoided if the light industries, with the vital export trade they nourish, were not sacrificed for the sake of war industries. Last week Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita was repeatedly criticized. And Ryozo Makino bitterly attacked War Minister Shunroku Hata for keeping military finances secret. "The people are uneasy," warned Member Makino. But War Minister Hata bluntly refused to reveal military expenses, and when debate began to sizzle, he coolly cut off the stenographic record of proceedings...