Word: okada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had already called on Premier Admiral Keisuke Okada, who escaped by hiding in a servant's closet. Having no such presence of mind, the Grand Chamberlain, confronted by 100 wild-eyed soldiers, argued with them for ten minutes. When words failed, he straightened up, commanded: "Then shoot me!" They did, and he crumpled in a pool of blood. The rebels burned incense over his body, saluted and hurried off. The incense and the salute were premature. The Grand Chamberlain somehow survived...
...Soviet Russia-if Adolf Hitler weakened Russia enough. By way of preparation for war, Japan sent three vessels to the U.S. to take its nationals back home. But even high Japanese Army officers were not too happy about the prospect. Commenting on Japan's present predicament, Colonel Kikujiro Okada of the War Ministry said: "We cannot just die off, smothering in an iron bucket clamped over our head, and at the same time we cannot remove the bucket; therefore there is no other way but to go forward and prepare for the worst...
When things grow tense in Japan, somebody often takes a shot at a political big shot. Five of the 18 Premiers Japan has had since World War I were assassinated; a sixth, Admiral Keisuke Okada, saved his life in the Army revolt of 1936 by hiding in a steel vault till he nearly smothered, disguising himself and mourning at his own funeral (TIME, March 9, 1936). Last week things were tense in Japan and the big shot-at was horse-toothed Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, 75, onetime Premier and currently Vice Premier and Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet of Prince...
...peace pipe is the briar that Japan's crop-haired Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka smokes vehemently on all occasions. As an Axis-minded statesman, Mr. Matsuoka has taken much criticism, but last week it was not his policies that drew fire. In Tokyo, Dr. Doichi Okada, head of Japan's Anti-Smoking League, publicly begged the Foreign Minister not to set an unhealthy example for young people by puffing in public, posing pipe in mouth for photographs...