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...Tokyo, Makoto Kozuru, Japan's Babe Ruth, over Jolting Joe DiMaggio, 4-2, in a home-run hitting contest in which each got 20 swings at practice pitches...
...managing editor of Tokyo Asahi is Makoto Takano, 47, who was free of any war-party taint. Meticulous and scholarly, Editor Takano landed a job with Asahi in 1929 by winning a competitive examination for graduates of Tokyo Imperial University. He recently spent three months in the U.S. as the guest of the New York Times...
Still other young mustards with machine guns had by this time burst into the bed chamber of Viscount Makoto Saito, Lord Keeper of the sacred Privy Seal of His Imperial Majesty the Son of Heaven, Emperor Hirohito. Old Saito had been a valiant admiral and from 1932 to 1934 was Premier of Japan. Two machine guns now poked their snouts in his direction and youthful mustards were at the triggers...
...marked for assassination, has been bombed twice. Last week Count Makino surrendered to the unceasing pressure brought against him by the Army men, pleaded a bad case of neuritis, resigned as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. The Emperor gave the job to the man Makino suggested: Viscount Admiral Makoto Saito, 77, one-time Premier. This tough but mellow oldster with a portentous pair of jowls can talk as moderately as Makino, but in a pinch he usually knuckles under to the militarists...
...infinite wisdom the chief naval treaties to which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with the U. S. and Great Britain. Though addressed to His Majesty, the sea dogs' demands were really aimed at the Premier, a sea dog himself. Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito. He promptly invoked a convenient fiscal scandal (the Vice Minister of Finance had been in jail on charges of bribery since mid-May) and the entire Cabinet resigned, leaving everything in the lap of 85-year-old Prince Saionji...