Word: kwantung
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...year-old Prince Saionji, last of the Genro; jingoistic Baron Kuchiro Hiranuma, who as Premier has an earthquake-and-assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura, firms that control 62% of the total wealth of Japan (Mr. Gunther calls them "Men of Yen") ; Emperor Kang Teh (formerly Henry Pu-yi) of Manchukuo, "least consequential monarch...
Stab at Suiyuan. Japan's Kwantung Army, recent conquerors of Chahar Province, swung furiously westward last week in efforts to break through into Inner Mongolia and cut off China from Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia whence supplies are streaming to aid Nanking. No correspondent was reported within hundreds of miles of this most vital offensive, watched with cat-like concern by Tokyo, but the Japanese claimed they had broken through Chinese defenses on the frontier of Suiyuan, seized strategic rail junctions...
More butter was smeared on by General Jiro Minami, until recently ambassador-boss and commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army in Manchukuo. Said he last week: "The improvement of policing, development of commerce and maintenance of cordial relations with neighbor States are the Kwantung Army's cardinal policies...
Bespectacled Emperor Hirohito, the earnest young Son of Heaven, had enough resignations to read last week to give His Majesty eyestrain - 500 in all. His personal military aide-de-camp, famed General Shigeru Honjo, who commanded the Japanese Kwantung Army which swarmed up to seize Manchuria in 1931, resigned last week. So did six lieutenant generals, five major generals, five corps commanders, bevies of War Ministry bureau chiefs and slews of Japanese officers of all the higher ranks.* Thus the Army continued its "expiation" for the Army assassinations of Japanese liberal statesmen (TIME, March 16). But for every...
...acquisition of new land. After the Sino-Japanese War, which added Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and the puppet Kingdom of Korea to the Empire of the Rising Sun, the earthquake of 1896 killed 27,102. After the Russo-Japanese War and the acquisition of Port Arthur, the Kwantung Peninsula and the southern half of Sakhalin, the Formosa earthquake of 1906 killed 1,228. After the Treaty of Versailles gave Japan a precious bagful of Pacific Island mandates, came the terrible earthquake of 1923 which killed 91,344. And three years ago Japan grabbed Manchukuo...