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...years Frederick Moore served the Japanese government as adviser on international affairs. Seven ambassadors to Washington-Shidehara, Hanihara, Mat-sudaira, Debuchi, Saito, Horinouchi, Nomura-worked with his assistance. He was a member of the Japanese delegation which went to the League of Nations to argue Japan's case for the invasion of Manchuria. When Matsuoka, the delegation's head; insolently marched out of the League Assembly, he was followed by all his fellow delegates save Frederick Moore...
...office of the N.E.I. Chief of Staff sat the Japanese Consul General, faultlessly dressed, inscrutable Otosugi Saito, talking pleasantries. From the corridor, aides and orderlies heard him laugh, a discreet, flat overtone to the mellow gurgling rumble of their chief, Major General Hein ter Poorten. Then, as an aide in gleaming white duck showed Saito-san from the room the phone rang...
Fifteen minutes later, as Saito-san reached the Preanger Hotel in the center of the city, he was shocked and surprised to see armed Dutch soldiers hustling German guests and hotel staff members off to concentration camps. The same thing was going on in all the 3,000-odd islands of Hein ter Poorten's domain. At the seaports, soldiers had seized every German ship, while others grabbed their officers and crews ashore and confiscated bombs (intended to blow up their ships) before there was a chance td use them.* Thus Saito-san saw how quickly Ter Poorten could...
...Otosugi Saito, back home in Tokyo, could not have been much surprised by the first news he heard from the N.E.I.: that within two hours of the attack every Jap in the islands had been interned; that the Dutch were in action and that one of their submarines had started things going by nosing like a blind mud cat through the shallows on the east coast of Malaya and had sunk four Jap transports. For by now he knew that the Dutch in the Indies were, like his onetime friend Hein ter Poorten, pleasant, poker-faced, indomitable, prepared...
...last decade, one or another of these blood brotherhoods was behind the assassination of Premiers Hamaguchi and Inukai, onetime Finance Ministers Inouye and Takahashi, Generals Watanabe and Nagata, Admiral Saito, Financier Baron Dan-men who seemed to the superpatriots to have betrayed Japan's divine mission to dominate Asia. Toyama personally had a hand in promoting the acquisition of Korea and in starting the Russo-Japanese war, and through the incredible Major Dohihara and a ruffian named Komei precipitated the Manchurian incident...