Word: ichiro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across this comparative calm the stain of scandal suddenly spread last week. Renegades of the majority Seiyukai party rose to link Minister of Education Ichiro Hatoyama and Railways Minister Chuzo Mitsuchi with the recent significant merger of all Japanese steel works. They charged that the steel companies had cash-bribed Ministers Hatoyama & Mitsuchi and 130 Representatives. Furious voices screamed back & forth in the Diet, named Hatoyama with menacing frequency. True or false, the scandal was of the kind that traditionally makes Cabinets reach for their hats. Premier Saito was ready to "release" Hatoyama, hoped against hope that that would...
...Yokosuka Naval Base, near Yokohama, the court-martial of the ten Naval officers who joined in plotting insurrection and committed the actual murder of Premier Inukai worked up last week to a fine pitch of Japanese patriotic frenzy. Arguing that the confessed culprits must go free, Senior Defense Counsel Ichiro Kiyose, a Member of the Imperial Diet, screeched in his final appeal...