Word: osumi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier buzzing about Tokyo in full Admiral's regalia. Such antics have their use. While Premier Okada has monopolized the spotlight, Finance Minister Takahashi has been able to wage quietly and not altogether without success a grim battle for budgetary economy against War Minister Hayashi and Navy Minister Osumi. Though the Japanese budget last week was fantastically unbalanced by $88,000,000, the Government nonetheless had Japanese essentials well enough in hand to be worried about its stand on the Divine Emperor...
...fact that Japan's national wealth is about 110,000,000,000 yen and her national income about 10,000,000,000 yen, or roughly equal to what seemed to him the extreme borrowing limit. With courageous ire Old Takahashi reminded War Minister Hayashi and Navy Minister Osumi that they once promised "to reconsider the situation when Government bond issues have ceased to be absorbed...
...possible risk of their lives War Minister Hayashi and Navy Minister Osumi negatively replied: "Such is not the duty of the fighting forces!" They dumped responsibility in the lap of Education Minister Matsuda who, with panic in his face, vowed, "We are trying our very best so to educate students that they will not entertain any such theory...
...after day in the Diet both lean, rheumatic War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and burly, big-fisted Navy Minister Mineo Osumi hammered away at the thesis that no matter what happens, no matter how remote the danger of war, Japanese Deputies must vote nearly half of the Empire's revenue to the fighting services, now and for an indefinite period hereafter. Pounding with his small fist, War Minister Hayashi cried: "The Army has no intention of stopping now in Manchukuo!" Pounding with his large fist, Navy Minister Osumi boomed: "We have no intention of embarking on a naval race...
...balanced budget. The last ditch in Japan is the point at which the Army and Navy, responsible solely to the Divine Emperor, threaten to withdraw their ministers, without which no Japanese Cabinet can exist. In the bitter dawn. War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi hurled this final threat and Finance Minister Fujii crumpled, accepting their demands which means saddling Japan with a 750,000,000 yen deficit. Three days later Mr. Fujii abruptly resigned "suffering from a nervous and physical breakdown," according to his doctors, who said they were injecting him with camphor oil. Grimly...