Word: koichi
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Ferocious Rear Admiral Koichi Shio-sawa was under a cloud last week. Word came from Tokyo that he had been superseded by Vice Admiral Kichisaburo No mura. This was immediately followed by a Shanghai despatch to the effect that Admiral Shiosawa had committed hara-kiri in shame. He had not. Rear Admiral Shiosawa remained in official command of the First Fleet, stationed at Shanghai, but Vice Admiral Nomura, higher ranking officer, arrived from Sasebo Naval Base as a sort of supervisor. Pleasant grey-haired Admiral Nomura, with many a friend in the U. S., looks startlingly Nordic. During...
Almost a thousand miles from Manchuria, in the sprawling, river-muddied harbor of Shanghai, greatest port in all the Orient, lay Admiral Koichi Shiosawa with eleven warships. One of them was the newest type of marine terror, the aircraft carrier Kaga, nestling 60 airplanes on her vast weird deck, smoke pouring out from her strange horizontal funnel...
...Chinese towel factory single-handed in the middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon fire engines. When the towels were finally extinguished 1,000 Japanese held a mass meeting in the Japan Club, and Rear Admiral Koichi Shiosawa, commander of the Japanese fleet anchored off Shanghai, issued an ultimatum: all anti-Japanese organizations in the foreign settlement as well as in the native cities must be suppressed "on pain of drastic naval action...