Word: nishio
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...survive without the army's approval. Political genius was therefore closely allied to military genius, and the soldier with genius or capacity in both fields was all the more necessary to the army. Itagaki therefore had to take no insult when his closest friend and associate, General Juzo Nishio, said: "I'll do the fighting. Let Itagaki do the office work...
Drinking Team. Squat, ugly Itagaki and lean, handsome General Nishio made a perfect army team. They drank great quantities of sake together, Itagaki growing garrulous and gay, Nishio sour and taciturn on the gently powerful wine. They shared two of the controlling passions of the Japanese army: a hatred of Communists and a companion hatred of Japan's great capitalist families (the Mitsuis, Iwasakis, Sumitomos and Yasudas) on the twin grounds that their abuses fostered Communism and that they disputed the mastery of Japan with the army. When others laid an indiscreetly heavy hand upon the princes of money...
...probably not a coincidence that Japan's commanders in the southern drive -Yamashita, Doihara, Honma, Terauchi -are from the next-to-top military drawer. Still neatly folded away in the very top drawer are Japan's very best-Itagaki, Sugiyama, Nishio. They may be in reserve for the crucial attack on Russia...
...incident" for November 1935. General Tojo was obliged to state that he had really meant "the general period of 1935-36." Shortly he was sent to Manchukuo with the Kwantung Army, where he redeemed himself by becoming the Man Friday of that Army's blustering leaders, Generals Juzo Nishio and Seishiro Itagaki. For them he ran a Gestapo, checking up on the Army's loyalties. He was said to have agents scattered from the remote frontiers to Mukden's hotels. His red brick headquarters bulged with dossiers on every Kwantung officer and he was known as Manchukuo...
...last week came reports which were shockingly new, inescapably true. For seven days on end the Japanese were consistent. First, they rearranged their continental high command. Supreme command of forces in China was given to one of the Army's best strategists, Toshizo Nishio. Recently resigned War Minister Seishiro Itagaki was made Lieut. General Nishio's Chief of Staff. Command of the Kwantung Army, the able if imaginative force which since May 11 had been making the barren plains of Manchukuo a bramble of practically uncountable wrecked Russian planes, was given to one of the Army...