Word: suki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago the U. S. had four great and potent friends in Japan: Premier Hama-guchi, his successor Wakatsuki, able bow-&-arrow man, Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, the "Roosevelt of Japan," Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye. Premier Hamaguchi was shot by a fanatic, died a lingering death. Premier Wakat-suki was driven out of office by Japanese militarists. Baron Shidehara dared oppose the invasion of Shanghai fortnight ago (TIME, Feb. 15) and lay gravely ill at his home last week. And last week grey-templed, precise Junnosuke Inouye drove to a political rally in Tokyo...
...know its name. Avidly have these officers yearned for the conquest of Manchuria. It is they who assembled the 300 Incidents, a list of Manchurian insults to Japan widely publicized in the Japanese press. Last summer a delegation of these younger officers called with their list on Premier Wakat-suki, Foreign Minister Baron Kijuro Shi-dehara, Finance Minister Junnosuke Inoue and begged...
Meanwhile just what Ministers Wakat-suki and Inoue had feared was occurring in China. The anti-Japan boycott was working as no boycott had ever worked before. Exports to China have shriveled. Last month they totaled only $5,212,500, compared to $16,243,000 year...