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Japanese politicians have taken over the respectable Occidental practice of accepting financial support from Big Business, but the new custom still smells rank in old Japanese nostrils. Twice scandal has invaded the Cabinet of harassed Premier Makoto Saito, smoked out two of its members. It seemed only a question of time until the great Bank of Taiwan scandal should smear the Cabinet. Last week...
Wrinkled 85-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), had the same two eminent callers again & again last fortnight. They were harassed Premier Viscount Makoto Saito and his Minister of War, General Senjuro Hayashi. Discord, scandal and sickness have jolted five men out of Saito's Cabinet. Hayashi wanted to be the sixth. Cause was his younger brother Yukichi who had been adopted as a child by the family of Shirakami and taken that name. The General felt that he was still responsible for his brother's acts, whatever his name, and Yukichi...
According to Rengo, Japanese news agency, Premier Viscount Makoto Saito broke the iron-clad seniority rule of Japan's Foreign Office when he was handed by War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki this stiff memorandum: "In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister to Holland, the right person for the post...
Blandly his host the new Premier, Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito, led the way to that chamber in his official residence where naval petty officers did Premier Inukai to death because they thought him "too pacifist" (TIME, May 23). Cinemactor Chaplin was shown the very spot on the floor from which bloodstained tatami (matting) had to be removed (see cut). He had previously lunched with young Ken Inukai, son of the murdered Premier. "As you know, Mr. Chaplin," said Son Inukai, "it was my late father's wish to receive you while Premier...
Tokyo was on edge. Assassination was in the air. Sentries guarded the homes of Cabinet Ministers. In his office, Tokyo Chief of Police Fujinuma nervously paced the floor. Finally he grew so nervous that he rushed to the residence of Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito, Premier of Japan. There he excitedly begged permission to remain personally on guard...