Word: yamagata
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Events are making it increasingly evident to the world that Japan has reached an acute phase of one of the most momentous crises she has faced since the restoration of the Imperial House. The deaths within the month of two of her ablest statesmen of the old school,--Prince Yamagata and Marquis Okuma; the nationwide tenseness over the trial of the late Premier Hara's assassin in Tokio, have thrown into sharp relief the vast struggle going on beneath the surface in Japan...
...have brought about this transformation,--the makers of modern Japan,--have been the Genre, the "Elder Statesmen". Few if any of them are new left, and the gap left by the death of the Empire's two greatest is almost beyond repair. General Tanaka, the logical successor to Prince Yamagata as military leader, cannot represent the Choshn clan, which has traditionally supplied leaders of the military party. Viscount Kiyoura has succeeded the late Prince as President of the Privy Council, but he can never succeed to his hold on the destinies of the nation...
...death of Prince Yamagata is generally considered an indicator of the end of an era, the decline of the Genro, and with it that deep-rooted reverence for elders and superiors which has been a characteristic of the Japanese race...