Word: okada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still hog-tied by Japan's militarists, the Empire's peace-minded politicians last week tried to upset the jingo Cabinet of Premier Admiral Okada by exploding a bomb of scandal. They blew up the previous Cabinet by the same tactics, proved embezzlement on "subordinates" of sly old Finance Minister Takahashi (TIME, July 16). Although the old fox is again Finance Minister, for the seventh time, and although the new Cabinet is again riding them, the timid but persistent politicians last week maneuvered blunt War Minister General Hayashi into serious admissions...
Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 6--Overthrow of the Okada government was feared imminent today, over relief and military issues...
Tokyo, Wednesday, Nov. 28--Premier Kiesuke Okada's military-controlled government was threatened with overthrow today with the convening of a special session of the Imperial Diet to consider serious financial and political issues endangering the life of his cabinet...
That Japan is in dead earnest appeared from the fact that her "scheme"' was roughed out at an acrimonious conference last week between those two tomcats of Japanese statecraft, Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi and Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. Over their snarling presided Premier Keisuke Okada, who arrived from an audience with the Son of Heaven...
...Tokyo the Swanson proposal was received by Premier Okada with glacial silence, but Navy officers who are his friends roasted it scorchingly in the Japanese Press. They declared that some reduction in naval armaments is desirable but that "obviously" the U.S. and Britain should make greater sacrifices than Japan. According to Asahi ("Today"), a news-organ close to the Premier. "The main [Japanese] complaint is over the Secretary of the Navy's assertion that the 5-5-3 ratio must continue, which seemingly indicates that all Japan's efforts to enlighten the United States have not made the slightest impression...