Word: ichiki
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Tokyo railway station as Mr. Hsieh's train coasted in, 13 masters of Japanese court ceremonies stood like statues behind alert, businesslike Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida, representing the State, and rheumy-eyed old Minister of the Imperial Household Kitokuro Ichiki representing the ''Son of Heaven." In his compartment on the train Manchuria's big sneeze took a last pinch of snuff, wiped his nose and stepped splendidly forth upon the platform, followed by his suite of 15 Manchukuo undersecretaries all in brand new clothes paid for by Japan...
...group of Japanese militarists whose powers last week approached dictatorship. Against them weakly stood the aged Prince Saionji, 92, adviser to the Emperor, Count Makino, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and possibly the Emperor himself. Two months ago a bomb, thrown under the carriage of Dr. Ichiki, Minister of the Imperial Household, exploded within 50 ft. of the "Son of Heaven" (TIME...
That carriage was occupied by Dr. Kitokuro Ichiki. Minister of the Imperial Household. The bomb was strangely ineffective. One horse was scratched by a fragment, the carriage was uninjured. Emperor Hirohito popped his head out of his carriage in time to see little Japanese policemen swarming angrily over the bomb thrower, a tall angular Korean named...