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Late last week, Tokyo sent a Foreign Ministry official, Seishiro Eto, to Washington to meet with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Eto persuaded the U.S. to continue the search for the missing crew members, an important gesture for Japan. The Americans assume that all nine are dead, probably trapped inside the sunken ship. But in Uwajima they are still emphatically spoken of as "missing," not "deceased...
...Premier of Japan; General Kenji Doihara, who had engineered the Mukden Incident in 1931; General Heitaro Kimura, former commander in Manchuria; General Iwane Matsui, responsible for the rape of Nanking; General Akira Muto, former chief of staff in the Philippines; ex-Premier (1936-37) Koki Hirota; ex-War Minister Seishiro Itagaki...
...Japs retreated over the Johore causeway over which they had entered the supposedly impregnable fortress city. Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki told the Sultan of Johore: "We hope the peace will last 20 years. Then we will be back again...
...lapsed from their memories and their plans. With delicate foresight and precision, they geared their machine of conquest to strike in any order that world events dictated. As it happened, China was first, the U.S. second in timing. Russia was third-but only in timing. In the sphere which Seishiro Itagaki marked out for himself, Russia was always first...
...Fool and His Power. Thus does Seishiro Itagaki preach the possibilities and rewards of North Asian conquest. For this he has prepared his Kwantung army. Now he weighs the coming of August and September, the two months of all the year when climate along the border best favors assault. Now, if ever, Russia is weak...