Word: mitsumasa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outstanding among the new Ministers: hypochondriacal Prince Fumimaro Konoye, 53, ex-Premier who resigned two months before Pearl Harbor, now Minister without Portfolio; wily Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, 65, ex-Premier and a holdover from the Suzuki Cabinet, now Navy Minister; one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, 58, an Army favorite, another Cabinet holdover, now Foreign Minister. The War Ministry went to the new Premier...
...Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, temporary deputy Premier and Minister of the Navy. Primarily a Big Navy man, Yonai is a popular mediocrity, awesomely known to his diminutive countrymen as "The White Elephant." As Japanese go, he is a great strapping fellow-5 ft. 7 in. in his sandals...
...reveal for the first time," said Wilfrid Fleisher, "a plot of last July 5 by which a group of reactionary members of the so-called 'God-sent' troops intended to assassinate former Premier Mitsumasa Yonai and the Imperial House hold Minister Tsuneo Matsudaira." The leader of this plot was Colonel Hashimoto...
From the word go. the tactics were new, strange, decisive. It is nothing new for Japanese Cabinets to fall while still young, for in the last nine years ten have fallen. But the way the Cabinet of Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai fell last week was unusual. Without the customary subterfuge, right before the very footlights of politics, the Army forced Yonai's resignation. Openly the Army gave its reason: the Cabinet's failure to follow the "dynamic policy" the Army advocated...
...Seiyukai's Kuhara urged a totalitarian party first upon his Seiyukai rival, then on the Minseito leader. Both took to the idea-providing the right leader (not Kuhara) could be found. By June 6 Kuhara had plenty of courage and supporters. On that day he presented Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai with an "ultimatum" proposing a, Nazi-like party with a razor-edge program: 1) break relations with Britain and the U. S.; 2) declare war on China, so as openly to oust all rival interests; 3) produce thousands of new airplanes, tanks, submarines. Kuhara chose for his slogan...