Word: seiyukai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese who has good reason to loathe Japan's ruling militarists is handsome Ken Inukai, 53, four times a Diet member. In 1932 a group of young officers murdered his 77-year-old father, Premier Ki Inukai, potent Seiyukai Party leader, whose wily political opportunism brought him the nickname...
...that we can tell the American people what we have at the bottom of our hearts.") The Emperor sent him a case of sake and a cask of fish. But temporary fame began to fade. In one of his usual quick moves he resigned from the Diet and the Seiyukai Party to work for the dissolution of all parties in the interest of "national solidarity." thus becoming in late 1933 forerunner of a movement that was to bear fruit...
...urged. In the past three, when the examples of Naziism and Fascism shone so brightly in Japanese eyes, the idea grew in favor. But when Nazi legions rolled into the Lowlands and France, the Japanese could no longer resist their penchant for imitating a good thing. Late in May, Seiyukai's Kuhara urged a totalitarian party first upon his Seiyukai rival, then on the Minseito leader. Both took to the idea-providing the right leader (not Kuhara) could be found. By June 6 Kuhara had plenty of courage and supporters. On that day he presented Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai...