Word: takashi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Ho who prudently imposed iron censorship to keep the troops from knowing why they were being withdrawn, fearing they would mutiny if they knew his treachery to China. Japanese dispatches quoted China's Ho as saying privately to Japan's North China Chief of Staff Col. Takashi Sakai: "I now fully understand what the Japanese want. I hope they realize my sincerity in seeking peaceful solution. I am convinced they will be rewarded. I do not expect any outward incidents...
Somewhat irresolutely Japanese North China Chief-of-Staff Colonel Takashi Sakai said that Japan had given the Chinese Government until June 20 to carry out the demands, but might extend this period of grace. "We intend to say nothing more," Col. Sakai suavely concluded, "other than to express our hope for the happiness of Eastern Asia. We believe the Chinese appreciate this expression of sincerity. If they do not appreciate it we must regard the Chinese as racial traitors...
...whose stock is in Japanese hands. To this firm His Majesty the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo has been graciously pleased to grant a monopoly of petroleum sales within his realm. President of the Oil Monopoly is Mr. Keizaburo Hashimoto, brother-in-law of famed General Takashi ("Happy Sparrow") Hishikari, the Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo and Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Manchukuo...
...jaundice with complications" (according to the Japanese War Office) before the imperial fruit arrived. In double-quick time Emperor Hirohito created the dead marshal posthumously a baron and named as his successor another member of the super-militaristic Satsuma faction which dominates the Japanese Army, grizzled old General Takashi Hishikari of the Supreme War Council...