Word: korekiyo
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...pure have Japanese politics been since then!-from the Fighting Services standpoint. Army and Navy appropriations, zooming higher and higher to astronomical figures, have slipped through the frightened Imperial Diet and House of Peers with lightning celerity, whether Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi had the money or had to borrow it. The new Premier has been a General's jewel. He, easy-going Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito (retired), has constantly deferred to the military caste, represented in his Cabinet by Lieut.-General Sadao Araki...
...capture the nine killers of the Old Fox as they fled. Later 18 young army and navy men came voluntarily to police headquarters, dramatically gave themselves up but confessed nothing, were not subjected to a third-degree. At 2 a. m. the Son of Heaven received Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, appointed him Acting Premier pending the convocation of the Diet...
Such a policy is never trumpeted from housetops. But Japanese knew what to expect when Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi issued this terse warning in a communique to the Japanese press: "The note issue will not be contracted below the present amount and may even be expanded...
...over in helpless rage. "There was no technical reason for the action taken by the new Cabinet!" he charged. "It enabled a small number of persons to reap huge profits,* but it will do irreparable damage to our country's financial position!" Blandly the incoming Finance Minister, venerable Korekiyo Takahashi, said that he would not trouble to draft a new budget but had decided to appropriate Mr. Inouye's budget...
Affairs-Baron Tanaka. Home Minister-Kisabro Suzuki. Finance Minister-Korekiyo Takahashi. Minister of the Army-Jchisuke Tsuno. Minister of the Navy-Admiral Keisuke Okada...