Word: kingoro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, bullyboy and cloak-&-dagger man, who in 1936 took part in the bloody coup against the Government. In 1937 he ordered the bombing of the U.S.S. Panay. His motto: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit and talk...
...admiral would be flying a torpedo bomber Tokyo did not even attempt to make clear. But there was a possible explanation in a recent speech by Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, head of the central headquarters of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. Cried Colonel Hashimoto: "We must crash into the enemy in suicidal attacks at the front and at home . . . the only thing for us to do is to decide to die, so this burning determination may take the form of firepower in the general war situation...
...members include such prominent figures as Admirals Takahashi, Suetsugu, Hasegawa, Yamamoto and Sekine. The head of the Aikoku Meirinkai, a powerful five-million-man military reserve organization, and the element which will form the home front army which we must fight when we invade Japan, is the notorious Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Seigo Nakano, who was a next-door neighbor of mine, is a director of the organization. From the second floor of our house, we could see over the high bamboo fence into his garden where often the Black Dragon functionaries would gather. The police who "protected" his place often...
...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, who ordered the bombing of the Panay...
...shrewd to be carried away by jingoistic phrases, even his own; too practical to guide Japan as fast on her New Order as her Army clique may wish to lead her. A totalitarian, he lacks Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto's aggressive and hare-brained Fascism. And it may be that, unless he can give the Army its pound of flesh, he will find himself out of the office he treasures, replaced by someone less brilliant, less cautious, "more vigorous." For with Mr. Matsuoka in the Foreign Office, Japan has moved in the East only when events in the West were...