Word: manchuria
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...largely the quiet influence of the navy that saw proper punishment meted out to the hysterical young army officers who last year murdered famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi and captured Tokyo's magnificent Metropolitan Police Building (TIME, March 9, 1936, et seq.). In the 1931 invasion of Manchuria Japan's navy did its duty but tepidly. Yet last week in Shanghai the Japanese Navy was fighting one of the greatest battles since the World War, and fighting it almost alone. Many times during the week Japanese army reinforcements were reported on their way to Shanghai but almost...
...than a decorative background of gold lace. Since last February Japan's Navy Minister has been Admiral Mitsuniasa Yonai, or more formally Yoniuchi-a descendant of the samurai, member of the blue-blooded Satsuma clan and grandson of the extremely wealthy Baron Kentaro Okuma, developer of the South Manchuria Railway...
...appointment in Tokyo of a sword-handy Cabinet which proceeded to squelch the Japanese Diet. New Japanese Premier General Hayashi is known and hated throughout China as "The Border Crosser." Reason: in 1931 his troops were the first Japanese unit to cross the border from Korea, invading Chinese Manchuria, the larger part of which Japan has now turned into her puppet Empire of Manchukuo...
...three large blotches with a total area today of perhaps 80,000 sq. mi. Last week this Red State was spectacularly absorbing many soldiers once commanded by Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, recently kidnapper of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.) and war lord of Manchuria until the Japanese drove him out (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Worse still, last week the deserters of the Young Marshal's standard were killing their officers, as many of these were not so eager as their...
...fall of 1904, Russia's Far Eastern campaign against Japan was not going very well. The first Russian Pacific squadron had already had one mauling, and the Russian army was on the defensive in Manchuria. So the Baltic Fleet was given sailing orders for the Pacific. The long cruise did not start auspiciously. The Oryol, Novikoff-Priboy's ship, ran aground shortly after leaving harbor. Before the fleet had rounded Denmark there were several false alarms about Japanese torpedo boats. In the North Sea some British fishing smacks were mistaken in the darkness for enemy destroyers...