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Then Mr. Akira Kazami, chief secretary to the Japanese Cabinet, disclosed only that the Imperial Conference had "deliberated carefully the policy for regulating relations with a rejuvenated China in accordance with the plan submitted by the Government and adopted the plan in its original form."The Plan, leaks soon revealed, is for the Japanese Government to assume that China "lost the war'' with the fall of Can ton and Hankow and that the time has now come to "organize and consolidate'' in China that peace which the Japanese choose to think they have won. Other events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Plan | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...most nearly "national" in Japan's history. In it were a count, two army and navy men, an airplane manufacturer, eight civilians (five of them from the House of Peers, two from the Diet's major parties). As chief secretary of the Cabinet the Premier chose Akira Kazami, a minor politician with no money. Kazami was as surprised by the appointment as the rest of Japan. With a deep belly laugh he roared: "Ha! Ha! Wisdom is not in my line; neither is money. Turn me upside down and you won't get even a nosebleed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Telephone Cabinet | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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