Word: inukai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese ministers swear to protect the person of the Emperor. Within an hour or two of the explosion the entire Cabinet of white-bearded Premier Inukai bowed their heads in shame and handed in their resignations. The same thing happened nine years ago when Hirohito, then Prince Regent, was shot at as he went to open Parliament. As in 1923 he refused to accept the resignations, but unlike the 1923 Cabinet, Premier Inukai and his Ministers withdrew their resignations...
...expected to stand both the cost of invading Manchuria and the resultant Chinese boycott which, more successful than all previous boycotts, had cut Japan's sales to her best customer 60%. Both warnings went unheeded, and popular approval of the Army's dramatic move put Premier Inukai in power. Last week he hobbled around to the Foreign Office and personally took it over from Baron Shidehara who made a last shrill speech to his former subordinates, urging "peace . . . conciliation . . . keeping faith...
Some of the presents showered by expectant political job-seekers on Japan's new Premier Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai last week were: eight sets of silverware; 80 baskets of fresh fish; 46 boxes of dried fish; 43 casks of sake; 33 baskets of fruit; 18 cases of beer; 15 cases of wine and 614 dozen rice cakes...
First act of the new Inukai Cabinet fortnight ago was to take Japan's yen off the Gold Standard (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week the outgoing former Finance Minister, thrifty Junnosuke Inouye, famed for wise and adroit retrenchment, boiled over in helpless rage. "There was no technical reason for the action taken by the new Cabinet!" he charged. "It enabled a small number of persons to reap huge profits,* but it will do irreparable damage to our country's financial position!" Blandly the incoming Finance Minister, venerable Korekiyo Takahashi, said that he would not trouble to draft...
Japan's $1,000,000,000. In the light of Old Uncle Chang's emergence and the resignation of President Chiang Kai-shek (see above"] the first interview granted to Tokyo correspondents last week by Premier Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai lost much of its quaint, cackling obscurity, became significant and fairly clear. With a bony forefinger the white-bearded Premier traced an imaginary map of Manchuria on the jade-green cover of the table behind which...