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...year ago the U. S. had four great and potent friends in Japan: Premier Hama-guchi, his successor Wakatsuki, able bow-&-arrow man, Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, the "Roosevelt of Japan," Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye. Premier Hamaguchi was shot by a fanatic, died a lingering death. Premier Wakat-suki was driven out of office by Japanese militarists. Baron Shidehara dared oppose the invasion of Shanghai fortnight ago (TIME, Feb. 15) and lay gravely ill at his home last week. And last week grey-templed, precise Junnosuke Inouye drove to a political rally in Tokyo...
...Heaven who thus equipped him with sufficient social prestige to represent Japan fittingly at the Washington Conference (1921-22). Since then he has been several times Foreign Minister, served as Acting Premier (TIME, Nov. 24) when his old friend and classmate at the Tokyo Imperial University, Premier Yuko Hamaguchi ("The Lion") was skewered by a would-be assassin's dagger and lingered on to die last month...
Died. Yuko Hamaguchi, 61, onetime (1929-31) premier of Japan; of ill health resulting from wounds received in an attempted assassination (TIME, Nov. 24. 1930); in Tokyo. Born Yuko Mizoguchi, he was adopted by a rich Samuraian, married his daughter and took his name, but in politics he was always the champion of the people. Rising to leadership of the Minsei-to (Liberal) party, he became Minister of Finance in 1924, restored the yen and helped rehabilitate the country devastated by the 1923 earthquake. He became Premier in 1929 and in the face of bitter opposition and active plotting obtained...
Sirs: In reading your pellucid stories of Japanese state problems, particularly of those in connection with the shooting by ambitious, 23-year-old Tameo Sagoya of Premier Hamaguchi in a Tokyo railway station (TIME, Nov. 24), I do not recall any mention of the recent exorcising ceremonies performed there (in the station) by Buddhist high priests. Reports Graphic, Manila, P. I. weekly, for March 4: "This station was a hoodoo, a place tabooed by the superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion...
Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, dauntless old "Lion of Japan," has simply not recovered sufficiently from the assassin's wound he received last year (TIME, Nov. 17). Failing in strength, the grand old statesman resigned, both as Prime Minister and as Leader of the Minseito (Liberal Party...