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Most important of Kosuge's new inmates was Takeo Kurusu, chief of the government's Economic Stabilization Board. With him were the Vice Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the chief of the Accounts Bureau of the Finance Ministry and the chief of the fertilizer department of the Commerce & Industry Ministry. More were coming in all the time. As Warden Kojiro Ito rearranged his cells to give individual attention to the Oh-mono (big shots), police arrested former Deputy Prime Minister Suehiro Nishio, who left the government two months ago under suspicion of taking bribes. Premier Hitoshi Ashida...
...salutes were exchanged as the Japanese Deputy Chief of Staff in China, Major General Takeo Imai, his gloved hand resting on the jeweled hilt of his oversize samurai sword, stepped stiffly into a Chinese Army jeep. His six aides and their luggage (briefcases, tins of tea, fruit juices, U.S. crabmeat) followed...
...Tientsin, he was approved by the Japanese and so far as Tokyo knows he is "loyal." Thus last week a Chinese tool of Japan was set up in Peiping as the executive of a piece of China as large as Texas. After touring about Peiping, optimistic Japanese Colonel Takeo Imai, the Japanese Resident, crowed: "Everything is brightness itself! Not a single Chinese soldier remains in Peiping." Japan's Domei news agency added that "a stream of would-be-constructive Chinese statesmen is pouring into the offices of the Japanese Army's Special Service Mission" -i.e., offering themselves...
...Died. Takeo Arishma, popular Japanese novelist in his villa, Tokyo, suicide by hanging...
Died. Akiko Hatano, wife of the Secretary of the Japanese Underwriters' Association, writer, leader of the Japanese Women's movement, in Takeo Arishma's villa, suicide by hanging...