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Integrally a part of Sadao Araki's whole life pattern has been the evolution of Japan's imperial scheme. As a youth, desperately poor but proud of his Samurai (knightly) lineage, he gloried in modern Japan's first and decisive war with China which ended (when he was 18) in the ceding by China to Japan of Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and Southern Manchuria including Port Arthur. When Germany, France and Russia forced Japan to disgorge all her spoils except Formosa and the Pescadores, the young Samurai's blood boiled with rage and shame...
...young Captain Araki buckled on his heavy Samurai sword, set off to fight Russia with the First Infantry Brigade and fairly crowed with triumph when Japan captured Port Arthur and Southern Manchuria a second time, taking over Russia's "lease" and also the southern half of Russia's oil-rich island Sakhalin...
Superior officers had by this time noted Samurai Araki's keenness. He was promoted to the General Staff. During the World War, when Japan seized Germany's foothold on the Chinese mainland (Kiaochow) but was later forced to disgorge it, Staff Officer Araki was Japanese military attaché in Russia, gained invaluable knowledge of modern practices of slaughter by incessant observation trips up and down the Eastern Front...
...that, in effect, the U. S. would not recognize conquest by force. The U. S. became the last obstacle in the Divine Emperor's way. But in the mind of Sadao Araki there is just one means (to date highly successful) to overcome obstacles: the sword of the Samurai...
...year (1853) which brought Commodore Perry and the West to Japan, brought to the Samurai (military gentry) family of Motoyama in Kumamoto a son, named Hikoichi. In time he was graduated from Keio University, became successively a government official, financial manager of a newspaper, director of reclamation projects. At 36 he took over a struggling political daily in Osaka, "Pittsburgh of Japan." Renaming it Mainichi (Every Day), he banished partisanship, began introducing the brisk interest of Western journalism. Japanese liked it so well that he was soon able to buy control of Tokyo's Nichi-Nichi...