Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resignation of Baron Giichi Tanaka, grizzled seadog, and the advent of Yuko Hamaguchi, tall, shaggy economist, as Prime Minister of Japan (TIME, July 8), seemed last week to portend two changes of international interest: 1) increased calm in China; 2) Japan's co-operation at the imminent five-power naval reduction conferences...
...reasons popularly given for the fall of the Tanaka government-lèse-majesté and the Manchurian murder of Chang Tso-lin-Tokyo businessmen added a third last week. Baron Tanaka's "Positive Policy" of intervention, vigorous protection of the Japanese colony in Tsinanfu, had brought a boycott of Japanese goods throughout China. By the most rudimentary bookkeeping, balancing the $250,000,000 colony of Tsinanfu against $500,000,000 annual trade with China, Tokyo businessmen realized that the "Positive Policy" must...
...Familiar to Washington is the new Foreign Minister Baron Kijuro Shidehara, onetime (1919-22) Ambassador to the U. S. Bright eyed, ever smiling, Baron Shidehara would be an agreeable, helpful principal in any conference on naval reductions. As Foreign Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Wakatsuki, preceding Baron Tanaka, he inaugurated the policy of conciliation with China which Tanaka so disastrously upset...
...made traveling to the Palace difficult, Imperial messengers were sent to ask their advice. Prince Kimmochi Saonji, now 80 (he was born in the year of the California Gold Rush) is the last survivor. So great is his influence still that when etiquette seemed to demand that Prime Minister Tanaka and his whole Cabinet must resign with Privy Councillor Uchida, Cabinet Members hastened to the garden of Prince Saonji respectfully to wait the opinion of that wrinkled sage...
Slated to follow Baron Tanaka in office was Yugo Hamaguchi, Liberal Party Leader whose policy of retrenchment and removal of the gold embargo is popularly acclaimed...