Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ascended Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito, received last week the first resignation of a Cabinet during his reign (TIME, Jan. 3 et seq.), at 9:10 a. m. from the Imperial Chamberlain. By 11:00 a. m. newsboys were crying on the street that the new Premier was General Baron Guchi Tanaka, leader of the Seiyuka.* Thus New Japan, with her young athletic, enlightened Tenno and highspeed printing presses, kept the public waiting not over two hours for an exchange of government which in ancient days endured decorously and interminably. Japanese editors applauded the new Tenno for following the typical Occidental procedure...
Sword-Handy Premier. General Guchi Tanaka is a picturesque, opinionated, vigorous man of the sword who was allowed to enter politics from the Army by imperial decree of the late Tenno Yoshihito† He was born (1863) the third son of a servant attached to the great feudal lord Mori. His evident quickness and superiority of mind gained him the patronage of his lord and he was sent to the Military School, thereafter rising through the ranks until, in 1915, he was a Lieutenant General and Vice Chief of the General Staff...
Affairs-Baron Tanaka. Home Minister-Kisabro Suzuki. Finance Minister-Korekiyo Takahashi. Minister of the Army-Jchisuke Tsuno. Minister of the Navy-Admiral Keisuke Okada...
...there was far more to the situation than that, and behind the scenes was General Baron Tanaka, President of the Seiyukai Party. Last spring...
...some time M. Tokonami remained deaf, but recently he wavered, still later agreed to become Vice President of the Seiyukai Party. Baron Tanaka promptly seized upon the tax question to force the Government to end the coalition. This, as described above, was done with the result that Baron Tanaka has the Government at his mercy when the Diet meets next December...