Word: sadao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scratch a young, ambitious Japanese officer and find a fiercely devoted acolyte of austere, intense War Minister Sadao Araki. Older heads, especially in the House of Peers, may shake, do shake. But Lieut.-General Araki sums up in his short, shrill self both Hodo and Bushido, the benevolent and conquering watchwords of Imperial Japan...
...More men are needed for the newly equipped units of the Army," declared War Minister General Sadao Araki in a bristling official statement. "If thorough training were carried out it would take 17 years to train the required number of [mechanized Army] specialists, but present conditions do not admit of this leisurely, though ideal, method." By rush methods 100,000 men will be trained in 1933-34. Another shock of the week was a sudden announcement by Tokyo police that they had caught four men red-handed in a plot to assassinate Premier Viscount Makoto Saito. Was there perhaps something...
Darting forward as soon as the Imperial Chamberlain stepped sedately back, excited War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki wrung Conqueror Honjo's hand, then clasped him in a "half-hug," exceedingly rare among decorous Japanese...
Araki. Censors were less alert in the case of Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, Japan's dry, spry little Minister of War, translations of whose article for Kaikosha, the Army Club magazine, reached the U. S. last week...
Cause of their asking was the following train of events: Premier Ki Inukai was assassinated by Japanese cadets (TIME, May 23). War Minister Lieut. General Sadao Araki, who should thereupon have resigned (according to Japanese tradi tion), did not resign but accepted the resignation of General Nobuyoshi Miito, who was then Director of Military Education and directly responsible for the cadets. General Miito, far from being demoted after his resignation, was assigned to the Supreme War Council (TIME, June 6). Last week came a climax. General Miito, it was reported, is to be sent to Manchuria in supreme command...