Word: seiyukai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Untimely seems the death of every great leader. Most untimely for Japan and the Seiyukai Party last week, was the death of Statesman Tanaka, whose determined methods had sometimes brought him the name of the "Mussolini of Japan...
...Government of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, on charges of corruption and bribery. Likewise jailed has been Naoyoshi Amaoka, the Tanaka president of the Board of Decoration, indicted specifically for selling "honorary decorations" to vain Japanese during the Imperial enthronement ceremonies last November and December. Sadly has the honest, industrious Seiyukai Leader watched his old ministry gather ill-fame. Tanaka, "the frank, magnanimous, indulgent and unreserved," as his countrymen frequently referred to him, found it hard to believe his "Seiyukai soldiers" could betray him thus. Most crushing denunciation of his régime fell three days before his death, when...
...morning of the state banquet the usually genial Baron angrily denied the rumor that he intended resigning from politics. Forgetting the caution he was wont to observe on account of a weak heart, the elderly soldier waxed in vehemence. "A soldier never deserts! I will stand by Seiyukai and I will defy my enemies, whoever they...
Snatched of its leader, muddied by its vice president, a depressed and disorganized Seiyukai made desperate efforts to mend itself for the impending national elections in January...
Died. Baron Giichi Tanaka, 66, onetime (1927-29) Japanese Prime Minister, leader of the Seiyukai (Conservative) Party; at Tokyo; of angina pectoris...