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...terms of sale were initialed in Tokyo last week by Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev and a General Ting, so-called Minister from so-called Manchukuo. Actually the real buyer was Japan through her shrewd Foreign Minister Koki Hirota at whose home the initialing took place...
...Japanese Diet nervous politicians have also been asking what General Doihara is doing in China. In effect Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, author of Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands on China a generation ago, has been obliged to admit that the Japanese Army has sent General Doihara as its own independent negotiator in the Sino-Japanese diplomatic haggle now being conducted as a repetition of the "demands" maneuver (TIME, Feb. 11). The Japanese Army apparently does not trust the Japanese Foreign Office or Japanese diplomats. With something as big as the Empire's future in China at stake...
...There will be no war while I am in office," cocky Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota recently told the Diet...
...from his seat in the Diet in Tokyo stood Foreign Minister Koki Hirota last week. "I am confident," said he, "that while I am in office there will...
Exceedingly high strung, therefore often indiscreet, and consequently world-champion deniers are most Japanese diplomats. Notably so is their ardent chief Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, a super-patriot of the Black Dragon Society. In his youth Mr. Hirota drafted Japan's crushing Twenty-One Demands upon China, demands so flagrantly outrageous that their very existence was denied to President Woodrow Wilson repeatedly, officially and as long as possible by the Japanese Embassy...