Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move into China without an Imperial Order-something august and rarely given. In Tokyo suppressed excitement grew so thick that Japanese would not have been surprised had civilian Foreign Minister Koki Hirota or War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima been assassinated last week. Japan's man-on-horseback, Emperor Hirohito, and China's Generalissimo Chiang seemed momentarily to face each other in a nose-to-nose stalemate...
Japan last week sparred cautiously for a new body-hold on China. The Japanese high command were with their Emperor Hirohito watching autumn maneuvers at Kyushu. The Chinese high command were, with the greatest unanimity ever seen in China, at the Kuomintang Party Conference in Nanking. The Nanking Government plumed themselves on their brilliance in having called in all silver coin and bullion (TIME, Nov. 11), thus forcing the Japanese-dominated banks of North China to declare for either Japan or China. Last week Japanese Army men warned the North China banks not to deliver the silver to Nanking. Slowly...
Reconciled after violent protest to the requirement that he remove his shoes when he makes his projected goodwill call on Japan's Emperor Hirohito, Vice President John Nance Garner worried: "They tell me William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan got their socks mixed and made some kind of social error on account of their feet not matching. I'll have to be sort of careful...
Uncommonly busy at the Imperial seaside villa last week, Emperor Hirohito peered through his heavy spectacles at a bowing and scraping galaxy of advisers who finally decided how to dispose of the sword-murder by a junior officer, belonging to the Army's fire-eating "Ginger Group," of its more moderate Director of Military Affairs (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week's solution: un-Gingery old war Minister General Senjuro Hayashi "accepted responsibility," the Son of Heaven accepted his resignation, and new War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima was hopefully called entirely neutral but more sympathetic to the Ginger Group...
Peering through his heavy spectacles, Divine Emperor Hirohito, the Son of Heaven, observed groveling on the matting before him last week his large, old-fashioned War Minister, General Senjuro Hayashi...