Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo, where wartime substitute materials are widely used, A. Tanaka, would-be suicide, wrote to a rope manufacturer: "I had been hanging only a few seconds. Everything was swirling madly. I repented and then the rope broke-your rope. Many thanks...
Disagreeing that China is responsible for hostilities, Wu placed the blame with the Japanese militarists and said that Japan was an obstacle to world peace. He quoted from the well known Tanaka Memorial to prove that Japanese imperialistic ambition was not limited to China alone but extended through the whole world, and declared that it was the duty of every citizen of the world "to stop Japan in her aggressiveness...
Matsumoto rebutting, disclaimed the validity of the Tanaka Memorial, as representing a vicious minority group, and ridiculed the reports of Japanese power, comparing the Chinese people to a green bamboo which can be bent but not broken. A half-hour of questioning from the audience of 75 followed the speaking. The meeting broke up at about 10 o'clock...
...small Tsushima Island, Japan. Jiro Tanaka, 21, fell in love with Sumi Chan, 19, a prostitute. Protesting that he could not afford to patronize the "restaurant" where she worked, he took her away and secreted her for a month, under the floor of the bicycle shop where he worked. Summoned to appear for a military examination at his native village, Toyomizu, 75 miles away, and still in love and poor, Tanaka bought a steamship ticket home, packed his girl in a box and took the box aboard. The box was delivered to a lodging house in Hakata, made odd little...
Later, politicians drew from General Hayashi the significant admission that, after the bribe receipt was found, nothing was done except to discipline a certain Major Tanaka, apparently because he blabbed the secret to members of the Young Officers League. These naive hotheads, not realizing that they were playing into the peace-minded politicians' hands, dished up the scandal in a lurid pamphlet which declares photostats of the compromising document were made by a sergeant major of the reserve. Reputedly Army secret agents caught up with this sergeant last week, persuaded him to burn his photostats...