Word: reijiro
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Causus Belli. When Reijiro Wakatsuki was Minister of Home Affairs (1924-26) he allegedly promised a group of Osaka real estate speculators that if they would contribute 200,000 yen ($100,000) to the funds of his party (Kenseikai) he would issue an order transferring the filles de joie of Osaka to a new quarter of the city owned by the speculators. The money was paid, but the order was not issued. Recently the aged onetime (1914-16) Minister of Communications K. Minoura was thrown into jail on charges arising from the incident. Premier Wakatsuki, called to testify, whitewashed himself...
...Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki smothered last week the loud jingoist demands of his Minister of Marine (TIME, Nov. 8). As a result of compromise, the Navy's demand for an additional budgetary outlay of 122,400,000 yen ($60,000,000) was clipped, and a five-year building program substituted during which the following ships will glide down the ways: four 10,000-ton cruisers; sixteen 1,700-ton destroyers, one 2,000-ton submarine; four 1,700-ton submarines; and three river gunboats...
...Reijiro Wakatsuki towers among men. He is Premier of Japan. He is six feet tall. His achievements as poet, statesman, athlete, financier are staggering (TIME, Apr. 5). At 60 he still holds the jiu-jitsu championship of Japan and twangs a deadly longbow. Last week he went a-fishing...
...galleries, fist fights were of frequent occurrence. The Kensei-kai and the Seiyu-kai (chief political parties) were at it again, with the Seiyu-honto alternately baiting and encouraging both. There was drawing to a close perhaps the stormiest session of the Imperial Diet in many years. Reijiro Wakatsuki. Above the squabbling undersized Deputies towered an old man, six feet in his stockings, who is still the amateur jiu-jitsu champion of Japan despite his 60 years. As a schoolboy he won the same title in archery, fencing, running, rowing, tennis and baseball. After graduating "summa cum laude" with...
Late despatches announced that Prince Regent Hirohito had appointed Minister of Home Affairs Reijiro Wakatsuki to be Premier pro tempore. As everyone knows, he is the leader of the late Premier's party, the Kensei-Kai, which holds 151 of the 464 seats in the Japanese Diet, 35 seats more than the second largest party, the Seiyuhonto...