Word: kiyoura
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outlining the policy of his Government, he promised electoral reform, anticorruption measures, State economy ; decided against raising loans; declared that the supplementary estimates passed by ex-Premier Kiyoura would be introduced with only a few alterations...
...General Kazunari Ugaki (held same office in Kiyoura Cabinet...
...Ambassador, and his wife and her mother, Mrs. Marchand, were greeted on the station platform by Premier Kiyoura, Foreign Minister Baron Matsui and numerous Government and diplomatic politicians of note. Baroness Matsui presented a large bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Woods. Thousands of Japanese made the station tremble with their "banzais" and at one period the enthusiasm of the crowd was such that they broke the police cordons. It was a magnificent, friendly sendoff...
Although Premier Kiyoura was closeted in conclave with the Elder Statesman, Marquis Saionji, and although Minister of Home Affairs Rentaro Mizuno enjoined the Premier to hold on to office, it was not thought that the Premier would attempt it nor that Elder Statesman Saionji would recommend it. It was stated, however, that the Premier would remain in office until June 4, when the State celebration of Crown Prince Hirohito's wedding* (TIME, April 7) will have been held. Upon this date the Diet assembles and Kiyoura Government is expected to resign. The next Premier is likely to be Viscount...
...Kiyoura Government went into office following the attempted assassination of the Prince Regent (TIME, Jan. 7). It was appointed by the Elder Statesmen and was always unpopular, holding power because of the impending wedding of the Prince Regent, a fact which earned for it the appellation "Imperial Wedding Cabinet." †He is not to be confused with Admiral Baron Tomasaburo Kato, onetime Premier, who headed the Japanese delegation at the Washington Arms Conference in 1921 and who died last Fall (TIME, Sept...