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...Tokyo, meanwhile, Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita quietly slipped over Japan's recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, figuring that last week the British certainly would not notice. In Tokyo an individual carrying dynamite, a razor-edged spear and a fistful of petitions confessed: "For three days I have been try ing to kill the Premier." Simultaneously in Japanese political circles the more or less gagged Parliament was reported so restive at the risks the Cabinet is running with its pro-German and pro-Italian pacts (TIME. Dec. 7) and its seizure of Tsingtao, that Japan...
...Tokyo last week the Privy Council of the Son of Heaven were furious at Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita for his handling of the new Treaty. It had been negotiated with great secrecy for some 18 months, and yet it leaked out of the Japanese Foreign Office just a few days before Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was to have signed a Russo-Japanese fishing treaty highly favorable to Japan (TIME, Nov. 30). Of course Comrade Litvinoff refused to sign this treaty when he heard about the anti-Communist pact, and last week members of the Japanese Privy Council...
Japan had a new Foreign Minister last week in the person of grinning, toothy Hachiro Arita. A career diplomat with a long record of service in Brussels, Vienna, Washington and Peiping, he was always considered a liberal, anxious to see the army curbed until he was sent to China in February. Amiable Ambassador Arita arrived at Nanking on a gunboat with decks cleared for action, has been hand-in-glove with the militarists ever since. Returning from paying his respects to his Emperor last week, the new Foreign Minister announced with a wave of his gleaming silk...
...Hachiro Kajewara of Princeton College is writing an article on "The Seven Wonders of Princeton," for the Japanese press...