Word: matsuoka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the course of Foreign Minister Matsuoka-a course of adventuresome diplomacy combined with military caution-had put Japan into one of the worst dilemmas of her history. Japan had to decide, and quickly, whose sun was setting on the horizon of world dominion...
This would be the final irony of Foreign Minister Matsuoka's opportunism...
...Oakland, Calif, high school 46 years ago Yosuke Matsuoka wrote in an essay: "If my country needs a statesman, I will be the statesman." He has been businessman, diplomat, foreign minister; always he has anticipated, with the mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist...
...lacks Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto's aggressive and hare-brained Fascism. And it may be that, unless he can give the Army its pound of flesh, he will find himself out of the office he treasures, replaced by someone less brilliant, less cautious, "more vigorous." For with Mr. Matsuoka in the Foreign Office, Japan has moved in the East only when events in the West were favorable...
Tale of a Japanese Schoolboy. Yosuke Matsuoka was born in March 1880, at the little port of Morotsumi in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the lovely island-flecked Inland Sea some 500 miles west of Tokyo...