Word: raishiro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were landing their freight of men and guns. As the troops arrived, Governor General Jean Decoux hardly looked up from the conference table in Hanoï, where he was having a long serious talk with the chief of Japan's military mission, Major General Raishiro Sumita...
...cruisers and two torpedo boats. Planes from the carriers cruised low over the city. At an appointed hour six French and six Thai delegates were taken aboard the Natori, where seven white-uniformed Japanese officers headed by Chief of the Japanese Military Mission in Indo-China Major General Raishiro Sumita received them with bows and toothy smiles...
Late in the week came a clue to the withdrawal. General Raishiro Sumita, chief of the Japanese "military mission" to Indo-China, called on pro-Vichy Governor General Jean Decoux and told him that Japan was gravely concerned over "increasing activity of anti-Japanese elements" in southern Indo-China. " 'Free Frenchmen' . . . Anglo-American agents . . . Jewish financiers have resumed activities prejudicial to the New Order." The Japanese professed themselves particularly "disturbed" about the south Indo-China port of Saīgon. Saīgon is only 650 sea miles from Singapore...
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