Word: hashimoto
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...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, who ordered the bombing of the Panay...
...shrewd to be carried away by jingoistic phrases, even his own; too practical to guide Japan as fast on her New Order as her Army clique may wish to lead her. A totalitarian, he lacks Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto's aggressive and hare-brained Fascism. And it may be that, unless he can give the Army its pound of flesh, he will find himself out of the office he treasures, replaced by someone less brilliant, less cautious, "more vigorous." For with Mr. Matsuoka in the Foreign Office, Japan has moved in the East only when events in the West were...
...first place, they had got Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, a violent superpatriot (TIME, Dec. 2), appointed chief of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, Prince Konoye's central directing agency concerned with streamlining the Government. Fortnight ago Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, former premier, a leader of the secret National Foundation Society, who has long been called Japan's foremost Fascist, was named Home Minister, in charge of police, secret service, censorship...
...least pretend to steer laws, some of them banded together in a Diet Members' Club, to "direct proceedings." With this they were vastly satisfied-until they found that the man who organized the club was an agent of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, which is run by Colonel Hashimoto, who is run by the secret societies, which are still run by the ancient toad of Kyushu...
Japanese police arrested 38 of the plotters - but not Colonel Hashimoto. One month later Premier Yonai fell, Prince Konoye took over the Government, and Colonel Hashimoto was made director of the Imperial Rule Assistance Movement, central directing agency in the "new national structure." There was no reason for the fiery Colonel to withdraw his admonition: "Watch...