Word: inukai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parliamentary government replaced feudalism in Japan in 1890. The new system creaked along until 1932 when Japanese Army officers put an end to party government by killing Ki Inukai, the last party Premier. The Japanese Army has dominated every Tokyo Cabinet since the outbreak of the Manchurian War (September...
Normally the leader of the Seiyukai Party, which has a huge majority in Japan's Parliament, should have been asked to form a cabinet last week, but Japanese politics have been decidedly abnormal ever since naval petty officers assassinated her last civilian premier, the Hon. Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai two years ago (TIME, May 23, 1932). This crime and other "purifying assassinations," all supposedly performed by patriots, are considered to have put corrupt politicians "on probation"?with no prospect of getting the Government out of the hands of the military for the present. Thus last week Premier Saionji...
...first official act last week Admiral Okada ordered opened up in the Premier's Official Residence the room in which "Old Fox" Inukai was done to death. Furnished in Japanese style, this room is covered with mats on which statesmen may squat as their forefathers did. Since the assassination squatting has been taboo, with Premier Saito using chairs and tables in the new style rooms of the Official Residence. Last week Premier Okada went enthusiastically back to squatting. He called back to their portfolios the outstanding members of the Saito Cabinet except famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi in whose department...
When the scraggly-mustached, ascetic General took charge, Japan's tiger was so restive that petty naval officers assassinated Premier Ki Inukai because they considered him a pacifist (TIME, May 23, 1932). Trusting General Araki, the fighting services who despise and hate all Japanese politicians, then settled down to the glorious tiger work of gobbling up Manchukuo and parts of China proper, not forgetting the Japanese naval clawing at Shanghai. Probably the Araki "ride" saved Japanese parliamentary government from being destroyed by a coup...
...English classics. They assumed that when Shakespeare wrote "honorable men" he meant honorable men. The case before the court last week turned on the pivots of honor, patriotism and Japanese devotion to the Divine Emperor. One by one the six assassins had testified that in slaying Premier Ki Inukai, a clever politician known throughout Japan as "The Old Fox," they acted "to bring the Emperor into more direct control of the Government." They also claimed that the assassination was a protest against the "shameful naval ratio" of 5-5-3 provided in existing treaties for the U. S., Britain...