Word: itagaki
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...Itagaki was the only one of the seven who publicly expressed contrition. Itagaki's poem...
...Japan; General Kenji Doihara, who had engineered the Mukden Incident in 1931; General Heitaro Kimura, former commander in Manchuria; General Iwane Matsui, responsible for the rape of Nanking; General Akira Muto, former chief of staff in the Philippines; ex-Premier (1936-37) Koki Hirota; ex-War Minister Seishiro Itagaki...
...Japs retreated over the Johore causeway over which they had entered the supposedly impregnable fortress city. Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki told the Sultan of Johore: "We hope the peace will last 20 years. Then we will be back again...
Opportunity knocks, and the sound is pleasant to Itagaki's ear. But he cannot listen to the call from Siberia without cocking an ear toward North China as well. He must have heard lately that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has sent the trusted Vice Chief of his General Staff, Mohammedan General Pai Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General...
From Manchukuo and Itagaki, no word of intention came. No word will come, unless it be the word of attack. General Itagaki knows well an old Japanese proverb: "Anyone is a fool if he has power and shows...