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...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...
...first place, they had got Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, a violent superpatriot (TIME, Dec. 2), appointed chief of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, Prince Konoye's central directing agency concerned with streamlining the Government. Fortnight ago Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, former premier, a leader of the secret National Foundation Society, who has long been called Japan's foremost Fascist, was named Home Minister, in charge of police, secret service, censorship...
...Japanese Government is in the hands of extremists. One faction-the Army group-wants to seize the prize of the Indies; another wants to overthrow the Emperor and seize power for itself. Foremost among the latter is a dark character named Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, who has been involved in enough shady operations to give several firing squads employment, but who has never been punished with anything but words...
...during the last few months, Kingoro Hashimoto has sat still as a spider, spinning a web of revolt with his subtle talk. He brain-trusted Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye in the latter's return to power, and was one of the eagerest agitators for the dissolution of the old political parties...