Word: ikeda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened, however, that Japan's Minister of Finance, Seihin Ikeda, was formerly managing director of the vast Mitsui Bank (he was rumored marked for assassination in the February 1936 uprising of young army officers) and his daughter married into one of Japan's four wealthiest families. For long he has rebelled at the army's proposal; last week it was rumored that, for the sake of his conscience and his skin, he was getting out. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, golf-playing descendant of a long line of courtiers, has from the beginning disliked his job. For 19 months...
...fiery War Minister during the Manchurian campaign. At the extremity of the "extremists," General Araki is an open advocate of a campaign to strike at Russia while she is internally weak and ram her out of Vladivostok. Appointed as Finance Minister was white-haired, white-mustached, Harvard-educated Seihin Ikeda, former managing director of the vast Mitsui industrial empire...
...gesture of appeasement to Tokyo capitalists, Premier General Hayashi named Managing Director Seihin Ikeda of Mitsui & Co. to be president of the Bank of Japan. This was as if President Roosevelt should suddenly appoint a Morgan Partner to be Governor of the Federal Reserve Board. As would have been the case in Wall Street, financial Tokyo was ''immensely relieved." Next followed a hammer blow. When Premier Hayashi first received imperial orders to form a Government, the "gold-braiders" clamored for Lieut. General Gen Sugiyama, an out-and-out militarist, to be War Minister. Premier Hayashi, however, with...
...court with passionate, often random denunciation of "the traitorous Mitsui!" As a result no successor to Dr. Dan, no Mitsui candidate for assassination, has been appointed. His work is now done by a "Council of Three" Mitsui minions (who hate, fear and dodge photographers) : domineering, onetime newspaperman Seihin Ikeda; softspoken, old-fogyish Nagabumi Ariga; diplomatic, democratic Kikusaburo Fukui. It was on this Council's advice that the Senior Baron last week signed away 30,000,000 yen,† created by a squiggle of his august pen a Mitsui Foundation "to relieve distress among farmers and fishermen." Though Tokyo editors...
Eleven other men besides the priest were arrested. They confessed (said the police) that their "Death Band," in addition to its actual killings, had planned to assassinate: Board Chairman Kushida of Mitsubishi Bank, managing director Ikeda of Mitsui Bank; President Kodama of Yokohama Specie Bank; Baron Go, president of Tokyo Electric Light Co. and former Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki. Only a Japanese knows the full magnitude of these names, equivalent in Japan to such names in the U. S. as Wiggin, Insull, Coolidge...