Word: inukai
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...Saturday Japan will hold general elections for the lower branch of the Diet, a body consisting of 466 members. The elections are being held to strengthen the power of the Conservative Premier Inukai; for at present the lower house contains a majority of the Liberal party which previously supported Premier Wakatsuki. This lower house, contrary to Western traditions, is rather limited in its powers. Yet it evidently has sufficient significance for the present Premier to dissolve it in the hope of a majority for his own party...
...rest of the world, however, is the fact that here is an opportunity for the Japanese people to show their attitude on the whole Sino. Japanese question. If they vote for the present government, then they will be endorsing all its recent aggressive policies. For it was Inukai who was responsible for the occupation of Manchuria; he lead the military attack on the boycott at Shanghal; and voted about fourteen million dollars additional for military expenditures in China...
...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...
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...