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Excitedly jostling each other last week, foreign correspondents in Tokyo elbowed in to their first interview with the Empire's new Premier, old-fashioned Admiral Keisuke Okada, who has put away his predecessor's swivel chair and insists on squatting on the mat-covered floor...
Quick-witted and self-possessed, Premier Okada let the newshawks peck him with impromptu questions about the issue closest to his heart as a Japanese Navy man. This issue all Japanese quarterdeckers passionately call "The 1935 Crisis." The Empire's life and honor are at stake, they insist, because in 1935 the U. S., Britain and Japan must, by treaty, hold a Naval Conference to alter or prolong the 5-5-3 ratio between their navies beyond...
...last week Premier Saionji had to advise the Emperor to choose another fighting service premier, another admiral or general. Courageously the Last of the Genro advised and the Son of Heaven appointed as Premier about the least quarrelsome sea dog to be found in the Imperial Navy, Admiral Keisuke Okada, retired...
...first official act last week Admiral Okada ordered opened up in the Premier's Official Residence the room in which "Old Fox" Inukai was done to death. Furnished in Japanese style, this room is covered with mats on which statesmen may squat as their forefathers did. Since the assassination squatting has been taboo, with Premier Saito using chairs and tables in the new style rooms of the Official Residence. Last week Premier Okada went enthusiastically back to squatting. He called back to their portfolios the outstanding members of the Saito Cabinet except famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi in whose department...
...world; by leaping into the sea from a liner bound for England and the second Davis Cup round (with Australia); off Singapore. Lately he had been nervous, off his game, had wanted to return to Japan but tennis officials urged him to continue to England. His fiancee. Sanaye Okada, also a tennis player, said his last letters had not been despondent...