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...newshawk squads hounded the Household Board just as relentlessly. In self-defense, board members invented a special code to use over the telephone, gave false addresses to taxi drivers to confuse reporters. "I myself." says Board Director Takeshi Usami. "have been forced into such subterfuges as abandoning my own car and using streetcars, and then getting off the streetcar to walk, just in order to throw the press off my trail...
Died. Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, 81, onetime Japanese Navy Minister (militarists forced him to resign after he helped draft the 1930 London Naval Treaty limiting Japanese sea power); of cancer; in Tokyo...
Seijiro's family did not know what had become of Seijiro last week. With eleven other Japanese families, they were packed into the classrooms of a Japanese-language school in Los Angeles. Said Seijiro's oldest son, 23-year-old Takeshi Suchiya, a pre-med at Compton District Junior College when the FBI rounded up his family: "When we stop to think it over, most of us understand the necessity for evacuation. But the immediate reaction is, we have got some rights as Americans. . . . I know my parents are loyal, yet they have been picked up. Anyhow...
Dagger. Naval officers nodded approvingly when the deathless spirit of Japanese fanaticism was shown again last week by one Tokuji Miyata, 26, bespectacled student of political science. With a dagger in his sleeve Student Miyata banged on the door of Admiral Takeshi Takarabe whom most other Japanese Navy officers consider a traitor because he was a negotiator of the London Naval Treaty with its 5-5-3 ratio...
Although forced to receive a courtesy call from Naval Minister Takeshi Takarabe, who got home from the conference only last week, it was noted that the call lasted the bare five minutes etiquette demanded...