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Word: itagaki (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home last week, Japan pulled her belt in another notch, prepared for further strain., Additional sections of the National Mobilization act, which places the nation on war footing, were invoked, to ration war essentials, curtail imports except war materials, control commodity prices. New War Minister Seishiro Itagaki gloomily admitted: "The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his lifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue. Consequently, it is necessary that the Japanese resolve to continue fighting at least ten years." The Imperial Council will meet soon for the sixth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Navy's Turn | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...second great Japanese victory of the week was in North China. There Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki's advance (TIME, Nov. 15) overwhelmed the besieged provincial stronghold of Taiyuan and at least 1,000 of its Chinese defenders were slain as Japanese stormed and breached through the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Lords Drunk | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Japanese commanders even had time to worry about etiquette. Thus Major General Rensuke Isogai, advancing down the Tientsin-Pukow line and Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, advancing on the Peiping-Hankow railway, are supposed to be "friendly rivals." Out of courtesy to them. Japanese military headquarters in China make every effort to announce on the same day that each has captured a town, although this sometimes means holding up news for a day or two to let one of the generals catch up with the other. Last week General Isogai was reported furious because Tokyo had not observed this etiquette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Double-Ten | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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