Word: sadao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still riding high, War Minister Sadao Araki last week canceled previously announced plans to reduce the number of Japanese troops in Manchukuo to a "peace time basis." Instead, more troops will be sent, the excuse being that Soviet Russia continues to maintain the large forces she established behind her frontier when Japan occupied Manchukuo and seized most of the half-Soviet-owned Chinese Eastern Railway which serves the northern part of Manchukuo...
...grassy plains of Hokurokudo 30,000 Japanese troops made mimic war last week in Grand Maneuvers staged for the Sublime Emperor Hirohito by ambitious, sabre-rattling War Minister Sadao Araki who finally grew so elated by his own sense of Power that he committed a major indiscretion...
Japan's sabre-rattlers see an inevitable armed clash with Britain growing out of the trade war. "It is now time," cried Japanese War Minister Sadao Araki not long ago, "for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites...
...Count Uchida was weary, one of the things that tired him was the incessant, reiterated sabre-rattling of War Minister Sadao Araki. Last fortnight Araki proclaimed, "The men of the sword are the wholesome elements in the nation, while the business men are experienced warriors in the sphere of economics. This is no time for indulging in partisan politics. . . . Big changes are in store for the nation within the next three months." And last week Araki sounded off again. He demanded a 1,000,000,000 yen ($267,000,000 at current exchange) domestic loan to squeeze a still bigger...
...stationed "somewhere to the southeast," gathered without difficulty that the attack was "as if" from a U. S. battle fleet in the Pacific. Japanese aviation men pointed out that the war games were equally a test of Tokyo's defense against an air attack from Vladivostok. War Minister Sadao Araki said that their purpose was the "spiritual education of the people...