Word: hamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Meanwhile Japan's militarism was mak ing trouble for Japan's business. The very day that troops were marching on Harbin and naval guns were bombarding the Whangpoo forts, Japanese bonds dropped to new lows in New York, prices crashed on the Tokyo stock exchange. The Yoko hama silk exchange, centre of one of Japan's most important industries, was forced to close. The Osaka sugar mills shut down last week, strangled by the Chinese boycott. By advice of old Prince Saionji no figures on the cost of Japan's military operations were allowed to ap pear...
...Sumida River (1) and little Kanda River (2), his Majesty can state as an eyewitness are still flowing. Buds are sprouting in the "Cherry Blossom Parks": Shiba (3), Hibiya (4), Uyeno (5), and Hama Rikyu (6), which is every year the scene of the Imperial Cherry Blossom Garden Party. Different is Asakusa Park (7), a "Coney Island," incongruously surrounding the Sacred Temple of the Goddess of Mercy...