Word: hirota
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...patriotic Japanese love their Army so much that they are going to give it $50,000,000 in installments during the next three years. This was only a small sop, but it tended to decrease rather than increase the likelihood that Japan's swashbucklers would force Premier Koki Hirota to throw down the gage of war in an effort to call the tremendous bluff of Generalissimo Chiang in refusing Japan's demands, if he was bluffing...
...fusillade which followed marked the first execution of a Japanese officer for political murder in 28 years. It occasioned no disturbance, no further outcropping of assassinations, and wary little Premier Koki Hirota felt safe last week in giving his firing squads some real work. According to the sentences of the divinely constituted court-martial, they were to shoot two infantry captains, a quartermaster captain, six infantry first lieutenants, an artillery first lieutenant, two infantry second lieutenants, an artillery and an engineer second lieutenant, a graduate of the Army Cadet School not yet commissioned and a retired Army officer-16 Army...
...Japan early in March was precipitated by their resentment of (1 the sending of a civilian as Ambassador to China, 2 the strong showing of liberal parties in the recent elections, 3 the refusal of the Emperor to appoint a liberal as Premier, 4 the appointment of Koki Hirota as Minister of War 5 the action of Parliament in cutting army and navy budgets...
...upon China, had subsidized and provided ammunition for General Pai. The ruse continued to work to perfection. General Pai's blasts against Japan touched off all over South China precisely the sort of Chinese popular unrest and baiting of local Japanese needed by spunky little Japanese Premier Koki Hirota as an excuse to intervene. By his orders a Japanese cruiser and six destroyers soon slithered into Amoy "to protect Japanese lives and property." Added a Japanese destroyer officer, "We are ready to proceed to Canton at a moment's notice...
...whip-hand Radical-Militarist circles the Hirota Cabinet declaration was greeted with the criticism that it was couched in too general terms, the Radical-Militarists demanding that "each ministry should announce concrete plans." First to do so was the Home Ministry, now headed by a Japanese Civil Service career official of great gumption, Mr. Keinosuke Ushio. "I am taking immediate steps to inaugurate nationwide health insurance," he barked. "Thus the Home Ministry will 'stabilize the people's living...