Word: mitsunami
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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...
Disgraced Admiral Mitsunami, incidentally, is typical of the Japajingo officers who made the Panay incident possible. Youngest of Japan's rear admirals, he received his appointment only on December 1, and until the beginning of the war had never served outside Japanese waters. An aviator since 1923, he has been flying instructor for many years, served as commander of the 26,900-ton aircraft carrier Kaga, from 1934 to 1936. The efficacy of air bombardment is part of his religion...
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