Word: yokosuka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merchant Nato, realizing that he now knew too much to be safe from assassination if he refused to contribute, grudgingly gave 60,000 yen, prepared to sell short. Meanwhile the plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...
...Japanese Bruti who slew Premier Ki Inukai for his "excessive pacifism" (TIME, May 23, 1932) stood in the dock before the Naval Court Martial at Yokosuka naval base last week while their Japanese attorney, in his final defense plea, quoted adroitly from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar...
Meanwhile at Yokosuka Naval Base, near Yokohama, the court-martial of the ten Naval officers who joined in plotting insurrection and committed the actual murder of Premier Inukai worked up last week to a fine pitch of Japanese patriotic frenzy. Arguing that the confessed culprits must go free, Senior Defense Counsel Ichiro Kiyose, a Member of the Imperial Diet, screeched in his final appeal...
Naval strategists outside the U. S. are inclined to think that Fleet Problem No. 14 is largely academic as a simulation of what a Japanese-American war would actually bring. Few can visualize a Japanese fleet capturing and holding Hawaii as a base after steaming 3,374 mi. from Yokosuka, much less driving on from there another 2,100 mi. to reach the U. S. and the teeth of a potent Battle Force. The Pacific seems too large and bases too far apart for such action...