Word: horinouchi
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...touch it had become. One L.D.P. legislator suggested that the consumption tax would be less painful if it were an even 4% instead of 3%. Another party member said farmers were only intelligent enough to do manual work. Credit for the greatest blunder, however, went to Agriculture Minister Hisao Horinouchi, who said, "It is wrong for women to come to the forefront of politics." Pausing just long enough to take one foot out of his mouth and insert the other, Horinouchi then attacked Doi, the popular Socialist leader. "British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is an exception...
Then Frank Buchman himself introduced a dozen or so "honored guests" for one-minute speeches. Dr. Kensuke Horinouchi, Japanese ambassador to the U.S. from 1938 to 1940, was "profoundly impressed with Dr. Buchman." Said grave, grey Dr. Chen Li-fu, newly elected Vice President of China's legislative Yuan: "The Chinese Parliament ... is still in session. But the urgency of the world situation . . . compels me to join forces with you today in this great international family." He told reporters earlier: "If Confucius were alive today, he would probably be here...
...years Frederick Moore served the Japanese government as adviser on international affairs. Seven ambassadors to Washington-Shidehara, Hanihara, Mat-sudaira, Debuchi, Saito, Horinouchi, Nomura-worked with his assistance. He was a member of the Japanese delegation which went to the League of Nations to argue Japan's case for the invasion of Manchuria. When Matsuoka, the delegation's head; insolently marched out of the League Assembly, he was followed by all his fellow delegates save Frederick Moore...
...Minister Matsuoka began sending Japanese policy to the cleaners without delay. In the most drastic shake-up in the history of Japan's diplomatic service he recalled 40 diplomats suspected of leaning toward the London-Washington Axis. Most experienced and important diplomat purged was Ambassador to Washington Kensuke Horinouchi, who is tactful, smooth and inoffensive, but decidedly no ball of fire. By last week five men had respectfully declined the post of Ball-of-Fire to Washington. Reason: relations between Japan and the U. S. are fast getting no better...
...President Roosevelt ordered an embar go on aviation gasoline to all countries outside the Western Hemisphere (chief targets: Japan, Spain). Dutifully Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi in Washington handed Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles a formal note of protest. Spain (where posters called for a return of the Philippines) protested...