Word: okamura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destroyers. Every 20 feet stood a Chinese with a rifle, revolver, machine-gun or snickersnee. General Hsiung was obliged to walk across a dusty road, through a network of new barbed wire and trenches, to the Japanese garrison's barracks. Inside he saluted Japanese Major-General Neiji Okamura whom he outranked, signed the curt truce agreement. Then General Hsiung and colleagues returned to Tientsin, prepared to hand their resignations to Nationalist Dictator Chiang Kaishek...