Word: mitsumasa
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Japan's Navy Minister, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, was called on the carpet before his Emperor to explain the Panay bombing and, as senior Japanese naval officer responsible under the commander in chief on the Nanking front, Rear Admiral Teizo Mitsunami, 48, was recalled to Japan in disgrace. From staff officers in Shanghai came fervent but indefinite suggestions of a voluntary subscription among Japanese sailors for the relief of the Panay's victims and an official salute was delivered over the Panay's watery grave. The Nichi Nichi raised a fund...
...giant for a Japanese, Admiral Yonai stands 5 ft. 10 in his big-toed socks and is filling his first big political post. All his life a sea officer, shrewd enough to avoid political squabbles, 57-year-old Mitsumasa Yonai received the flag of a Taisho or full admiral only last December, though he had been a Chui or sublieutenant under the great Togo at the Battle of Tsushima Strait. Affable with junior officers he is extremely popular in the service. More important for the present war, there is probably no Japanese flag officer who knows more about China...
Lieut.-General Gen Sugiyama, War Minister in the Hayashi Cabinet, kept his job after getting a promise from the new Premier that national defense would be strengthened. Navy Minister Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai also stayed in office. Cautious, 59-year-old Koki Hirota, onetime Premier, onetime Foreign Minister, returned to the Foreign Office-a popular move...
...Emperor, making them virtual equals of the Premier. Smart Sato simply let it be known that he will not operate in an exalted vacuum. When he sits down to elaborate Japanese foreign policy, he will take counsel with War Minister General Gen Sugiyama and Navy Minister Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai as often as possible. Minister Sato's promise lent weight to his opening speech before the House of Peers in which he keynoted an astonishing reversal of Japanese policy. Said he: "China demands to be treated on an equal footing. This wish should be respected and past differences forgotten...