Word: kawai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden cancellation of the Japanese-U.S. Treaty of Commerce of 1911, the Japanese had a rude awakening. The press scarcely knew what to make of it; political leaders were reluctant to tell the people that the treaty's abrogation might well foreshadow an economic blockade. Tatsuo Kawai, the fastidious, chubby-faced Foreign Office spokesman who gives the foreign press interviews thrice weekly, called the U.S. action "unbelievably abrupt," admitted that it was "highly susceptible of being interpreted as having political significance." At first it was suggested that the U.S. might be ready to conclude a new treaty based...
Arriving in Hsinking, capital of Manchukuo, Japanese Foreign Office Spokesman Tatsuo Kawai outlined for correspondents Japan's program for dealing with Western powers in China: 1) elimination of all foreign Concessions; 2) reorganization of international settlements; 3) blotting out of all anti-Japanese activities in foreign areas. Elaborated Spokesman Kawai: "The days of foreign settlements in China are numbered...