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...Sotaro Ishiwata, Finance Minister. He was beaver-busy piling up yen for war in the Cabinet of Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma (1939). It was then too that he established his record as a liberal. He opposed the Japanese alliance with Germany...
Fewer Kicks. On the Emperor's order, Yonai shared with Koiso the responsibility for organizing the new Cabinet. One result: the Navy may now hope to be kicked around less by the bossy Army. Yonai could always cite his record in the Hiranuma government. He resisted the formation of the Axis at that time, postponed it a year by insisting: "The Japanese Navy belongs to the Emperor; it is not for hire, by Hitler or anyone else...
...More Axis to Grind? Trying to effect a last-minute reconciliation with the U.S., feeling his Government giving and straining beneath him, remembering the recent attempted assassination of Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma (TIME, Aug. 25), Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was on a spot. Either a difficult war or a new wave of political assassinations was possible. Knowing how little the Axis had to offer, weighing the combined Allied might in the Orient, sensing the industrial and commercial profits to be gained from a Pacific peace, Prince Konoye must have hoped that some arrangement could be worked out with the stiffening...
When Baron Hiranuma was Premier in 1939, he lived in an "assassination-proof" house in Tokyo. Now he lives in a modest villa in the Tokyo suburbs. Early one morning last week there came to the modest villa a 33-year-old autograph hunter named Naohiko Nishiyama. While the kimonoed Baron obligingly painted his calligraph, Autograph Hunter Nishiyama whipped a revolver from a parchment scroll, fired thrice, missed once. Though wounded, the Baron gave chase, caught the visitor by the shirt, held him with the aid of a guard...
...Autograph Hunter Nishiyama was, whom he represented, Minister for Home Affairs Harumichi Tanabe would not say. The United Press cabled darkly from Shanghai that diplomatic circles there understood that ten hours before the assault, an Axis newspaperman telephoned the Ministry for Home Affairs in Tokyo to inquire if Baron Hiranuma had been shot...