Word: terauchi
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...their part, Japan's top officials eagerly participated in the cultural pillaging, amassing enormous personal collections. When the first Governor General, Ito Hirobumi, was assassinated after a four-year reign, he owned more than 1,000 pieces of celadon. The third Governor General, Masataka Terauchi, assembled 1,855 works of calligraphy, 432 books and 2,000 pieces of celadon, mirrors and other artifacts. Terauchi's collection ended up at Yamaguchi Women's University, according to Nam Yong Chang, a Japanese academic of Korean ancestry, who says only a fraction of the collection was later returned to Korea. Everybody knew what...
...Tokyo, a statue of the late Field Marshal Masatake Terauchi, Japanese Prime Minister in World War I, was torn down to make way for three naked women in bronze symbolizing Love, Intelligence and Will Power...
Died. Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, 66, scion of the samurai, son of the 1910 annexer of Korea, wartime commander of Japanese land forces in the southern regions (IndoChina, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines), former War Minister; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Johore, Malaya...
...that the British had botched the job. The Japanese, said Colonel H. J. Cedille, had armed the natives, incited them to riot and in some cases had joined them, posing as Annamites. General Gracey, dismayed by the whole business, talked tough to the Jap commander, Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, then flew down to Singapore with Colonel Cedille, senior French officer at Saigon, for a worried conference with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. But not until strong French forces arrived (under General Jacques Leclerc and Admiral Georges Thierry d'Ar-genlieu) would Terauchi's men be disarmed...
...Sultan of Johore, bearing a personal grudge against the Jap invaders of his Malayan state-they had not only maltreated his subjects but had swiped five of his automobiles and one of his polo-field rollers-recalled one thoroughly satisfactory incident: Field Marshal Terauchi had made him a present of a loaf of bread, but the Sultan simply smelled it-in the Marshal's presence-and told a manservant to throw it away...