Word: nishihara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning General Nishihara deferred "for the time being" the landing of troops at Haiphong, but the drive from the China border was carried to the enemy with energy. Tokyo newspapers hailed the "peaceful penetration." French authorities put aside the honey and brought on the acid: "Anyone coming across the border in the middle of the night in combat formation and using arms is hardly friendly...
...show they meant business they ordered the evacuation of Japanese nationals from Indo-China, began moving them to the port city of Haiphong. Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of the mission, gravely warned: "When I leave French territory you may say the crisis has been reached." But the same day Japan backed down again, then announced that the negotiations were again going along smoothly. The Foreign Office in Tokyo glibly denied that there had ever been any ultimatum anyway...
...three Japanese air stations in Tonkin, with 6,000 troops to garrison them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with the French defenders. Next morning Tokyo announced the surrender of the French, and the Japanese marched triumphantly on, while their Foreign Office virtuously announced that the clash "was entirely...
...midnight in Hanoi and Admiral Jean Decoux, Governor General of French Indo-China, was in bed when Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of the Japanese military mission, arrived at his residence last week and demanded an immediate audience. "I am not getting up," shouted the irate Admiral. "If the Japanese want to declare war, they can do it tomorrow morning...
...bases and permission to transport 20,000 troops on the French-owned Indo-China Railway for a backdoor attack on China. It was to demand permission to transport 40,000 more troops and the free use of the great French naval base at Cam-ranh Bay that General Nishihara made his midnight call...