Word: kawai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most engaging comment on Japan's intentions was made by Minister to Australia Tatsuo Kawai, who does not mind being photographed in his pajamas or under the shower. Minister Kawai announced in Adelaide that he was tired of hearing the word "drive" to describe Japan's intentions. Asked whether Japan would move southward as far as Australia, Mr. Kawai said that would depend on the provocation. Asked whether Australia had been provocative, he said there had been a few pinpricks. Asked whether Japan desired territorial expansion toward the Indies, he said territorial expansion was an old-fashioned phrase...
...Japanese Minister to Australia [TIME, March 31] clearly shows the extent to which the Japanese have aped American customs. Minister Kawai's rumpled pajama "tops" and neatly pressed "bottoms...
...more remarkable was Navyman Hughes's statement because his Government had just finished welcoming Japan's first Minister to Australia: fastidious, silk-smooth Tatsuo Kawai, a onetime secretary at the Japanese Embassy in Washington. Minister Kawai arrived in Australia last fortnight, promptly began to talk about a trade agreement between Australia and Japan, a new airline connecting the two nations. Japan, said he, had no aggressive intentions against Australia-he believed in a policy of Australia for the Australians, Asia for the Japanese...
...same, Australians felt safer last week with a squadron of U. S. warships in Sydney harbor, U. S. sailors roaming Sydney's streets. In Melbourne, when he heard of the three-day celebration for Admiral Newton's men, amiable Minister Kawai smiled politely. Japan, he said, regarded the visit as a good-will gesture. He would visit the ships himself, if he were invited...
...changed. Changed they were, with a new regime of strong men for France (see p. 34) and a new Allied generalissimo, Maxime Weygand (see p. 23). ∧ Back in London, Prime Minister Churchill lunched on Friday at the Japanese Embassy with Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Minister at Large Tatsuo Kawai, French Ambassador Charles Corbin and the Iranian Minister. Significant was this first official function Mr. Churchill had found time to attend. It was a safe guess that Mr. Churchill indicated no desire to jump The Netherlands East Indies. Still open, however, was the question of how long the Japanese would wait...