Word: nagano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school, many business offices, deprived 1,500 of their homes. Korea, Japan's mainland dependency, was lashed by a storm which toppled 62 houses in the Keishonando district, lost eleven fishing boats near Fusan, bearing 70 fishermen. At Shingishu, Korea, 200 houses were washed away by floods. At Nagano, 20 persons were blown to bits by a fireworks explosion. Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki on the Empire's main island. A cyclone howled through the town of Fukui, unroofed houses, wrecked communications. At Nagoya, a despondent Japanese supplemented the work...
...advised bespectacled Emperor Hirohito to suspend Parliament for two days. But War Minister Terauchi's blood was at boiling point. He demanded that the Cabinet advise the Emperor to dissolve the Diet and order fresh elections. He relied on the fact that he and Navy Minister Admiral Osami Nagano are answerable ultimately only to the Emperor. He felt confident that with the Navy Minister's backing he could throw a big enough wrench into the parliamentary machine to halt it now, perhaps wreck it permanently. Now came the big surprise...
Navy Minister Nagano, instead of lining up with War Minister Terauchi, went over to confer with the politicians, the "despised civilians." Not because he was opposed to War Minister Terauchi did Navy Minister Nagano refuse to back him. His reason, and he was probably right, was that he thought that he and Terauchi would more easily get the present Diet to vote three billion yen ($850,000,000) for the Army & Navy than perform the same feat with a Diet elected by more or less angry Japanese voters who knew the Army had forced dissolution. In Tokyo, however...
...pear peelings." Abjectly the Chinese night club proprietor made written apology to the Japanese, but by this time Rear-Admiral Eijiro Kondo, Commander of the Shanghai Special Japanese Marine Corps, was clearing his ships for action and in Tokyo the Emperor was closeted with Japanese Navy Minister Osami Nagano while the Government's press spokesman cried: "Our indignation knows no bounds...
Because the spy game follows a certain international routine, diplomatic Washington and Tokyo both professed blank ignorance of the whole affair. Secretary of State Hull said that all he knew about the matter was what he had read in the newspapers. Purred Navy Minister Osami Nagano in Tokyo: "In America, as in other countries, there are a few worthless individuals who try to obtain money from foreigners for supposedly valuable secret information, but we can't believe any Japanese officer attempted to use such persons...