Word: masaharu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Army was furious with its Government for removing Tientsin negotiations to Tokyo, and has been trying to sabotage the parleys all along. The Army hopes for a holdout, and a breakdown of the Tokyo negotiations. "Such a development," said pudgy, suave Major General Masaharu Homma, Commander of the Tientsin Garrison, who learned to hate the British as an Oxford student, "can only be welcomed. Then we shall be freed of the Government's promise to respect British interests in Asia. The Tientsin Concession can then finally be closed...
Suave Major General Masaharu Homma, the man on the spot, even feigned surprise to find the British so annoyed because a few of their citizens had been undressed. He received 40 correspondents at his headquarters, which were lavishly spread with liquor, caviar, plates of ice cream, and other goodies now scarce in the British Concession, and there explained how it all happened. Some Japanese sentries, said the General, are simple peasants who do not understand European standards of modesty. His countrymen, he explained, do not mind disrobing in public or even parboiling in a public bath with members...
...happens that the only Japanese general of prominence who has been permitted to travel in the Soviet Union for some time is Major General Masaharu...
...Tokyo, Alumnus Baron Ino Dan (Graduate School, 1917-1918), of the potent banking firm of Mitsui, was so delighted to find a Japanese lantern exactly 300 years old that he packed it off to Cambridge in care of his friend Professor Masaharu Anesaki...