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...will be held by the militarists' small and comparatively new Showakai Party. Although not exactly translatable, Showakai is a Japanese word strongly implying that it is the Party's divinely appointed duty to usher in a New Era. With his eye on the New Era, Vice Admiral Kenkichi Takahashi, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Combined Fleets, said last week: "It is likely that Japan's economic advance in Manchukuo soon will reach its limits, and, therefore, the Empire's future commercial expansion must be directed to Southern Seas, with Formosa or the mandated islands...
...Most of its modern ships are fast freighters with accommodations for a limited number of passengers. Bidding for the passenger and silk traffic, N. Y. K. recently built nine motor vessels, three of them the biggest and fastest motor ships in the Pacific. If the two companies merge President Kenkichi Kagami of N. Y. K. will probably head a combine owning 1,500,000 tons of shipping, 260 vessels. Then more accurate than ever will be N. Y. K.'s boast that its ships "Sail All Seas, Link All Lands...
Still Foreign Minister, though expected shortly to resign, was the "Old Fox's" son-in-law-short, purposeful. stogy-smoking Mr. Kenkichi Yoshizawa. With a stoical air of business-as-usual the Foreign Minister told correspondents among other things that...
...parade ground, each with its fluttering sunburst guidon. In the front of the reviewing stand were many of the highest officers in the Japanese Army & Navy: Vice Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Commander of the Shanghai fleet; General Yoshinori Shirakawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Shanghai; Maj.-General Kenkichi Uyeda; Consul General Kuramatsu Murai; Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu. Behind them loomed the big foreign military attachés of Britain, France, Italy, the U. S. These white officials left the stand as soon as the review was over. The crowd pressed round to listen to speeches...
...Ambassador Forbes is neither credulous nor crochety," said Japanese Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa handsomely at one of these functions. "He is never ridden by nightmares of suspicion...