Word: sakai
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...prudently imposed iron censorship to keep the troops from knowing why they were being withdrawn, fearing they would mutiny if they knew his treachery to China. Japanese dispatches quoted China's Ho as saying privately to Japan's North China Chief of Staff Col. Takashi Sakai: "I now fully understand what the Japanese want. I hope they realize my sincerity in seeking peaceful solution. I am convinced they will be rewarded. I do not expect any outward incidents...
Somewhat irresolutely Japanese North China Chief-of-Staff Colonel Takashi Sakai said that Japan had given the Chinese Government until June 20 to carry out the demands, but might extend this period of grace. "We intend to say nothing more," Col. Sakai suavely concluded, "other than to express our hope for the happiness of Eastern Asia. We believe the Chinese appreciate this expression of sincerity. If they do not appreciate it we must regard the Chinese as racial traitors...
...down 77 primary schools in Osaka Prefecture, crushing 310 school children to death. It tugged down small skyscrapers. It swept away wood-&-paper houses like rubbish. An hour later it was gone, northward, but behind it came a tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru into the Customs House. As Osaka citizens fled past...