Word: kwantung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Office. The new Ministry may also be intended to help free Japan's military masters from the nuisance of Foreign Office bureaucrats. First head of the new Ministry is Kazuo Aoki, 53, longtime Finance Ministry official, who has recently risen fast as an aggressive-minded favorite of the Kwantung Army clique...
Sharpen the Blade. A unique segment of the Japanese army is the Kwantung army, and Itagaki is its master. He and his companions in conquest shaped it for a single purpose: the extension of Japanese sway over northern Asia. The creation of Manchukuo achieved part of this aim; only attack on Russian Asia can complete the scheme...
...special status of Itagaki's army testifies to the quality of his military and political planning, the importance of his sphere. His Kwantung army is responsible, not to the War Office in Tokyo, but to the Emperor himself. In this-to the Japanese-vital respect, the Kwantung army is on a par with the Japanese army as a whole...
...Fool and His Power. Thus does Seishiro Itagaki preach the possibilities and rewards of North Asian conquest. For this he has prepared his Kwantung army. Now he weighs the coming of August and September, the two months of all the year when climate along the border best favors assault. Now, if ever, Russia is weak...
...cannot listen to the call from Siberia without cocking an ear toward North China as well. He must have heard lately that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has sent the trusted Vice Chief of his General Staff, Mohammedan General Pai Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General Hu Tsung-nan may be stout aids to General Stern in Siberia...