Word: manchuria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Wei Li-huang, 64, wily Chinese Nationalist general who, after chopping up the Japanese in World War II and keeping the Communists at bay in the civil war that followed, inexplicably pulled out of a strongly fortified position in Manchuria at a crucial point in the war and went to live quietly in Hong Kong until 1955, when the Communists persuaded him to propagandize for them; of pneumonia; in Peking...
Pearl Harbor Days. In Manchuria, Kishi found himself among friends and relatives. His uncle ran the Manchurian railways; Kishi brought over Steelmaker Aikawa to take charge of factory construction, and became closely connected with General Hideki Tojo, commander of the Kwantung army. Returning to Japan in 1939, Kishi could say complacently: "Manchurian industry is my development. I have an infinite affection for this industrial world I have created." Today, Kishi's lost "creation" provides arms and economic muscle for Red China...
...knew a great many young Tokyo actresses." In the political arguments that raged at school, young Kishi emerged as a conservative and a fiery nationalist. His hero was Kita Ikki, a right-wing radical who wanted Japan run by a military junta and called for the conquest of Manchuria and Siberia. Kishi was less happy about Ikki's attacks on private property and free enterprise; when some of Ikki's thugs tried to beat up a professor whose opinions they disliked, Kishi withdrew as a disciple...
...Commerce Minister, resentful of Kishi's golf and restaurant dates with such influential businessmen as Sugar Magnate Aiichiro Fujiyama and Steelmaker Yoshisuke Aikawa, complained: "Kishi behaves as if he were the Minister instead of me!" Relations got so bad that Kishi quit and went to Manchuria as industrial adviser to the Japanese puppet government...
...nationalist gunmen, and other top officials killed and wounded. The government struck back by executing 13 army officers for conspiracy, and sending Kishi's discarded hero, Kita Ikki, to a firing squad. But victory went to the militarists. Ignoring orders from Tokyo, the Kwantung army occupied all of Manchuria. By 1937, when full-scale hostilities with China broke out, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet could only be appointed with the approval of the army...