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Last January four young Canadians looted a Japanese candy-store till, shot & killed Proprietor Yoshiyuki Uno. Last week a Vancouver court sentenced all four of them to be hanged...
...Tokyo last week the Supreme War Council consisted of seven Japanese generals and four Imperial Princes. In a characteristic Japanese offering of "expiation," all seven generals handed their resignations from the Supreme War Council to their fellow general, Acting War Minister Yoshiyuki Kawashima for transmission to the Son of Heaven. There was some mumbling about the seven generals feeling "indirectly responsible" for the assassinations of last fortnight, but to a Japanese the seven resignations meant that, in exchange for this colossal "expiation," the Army expected a like return, perhaps demanded it in secret...
...been instructed by the "highest authority" (the Son of Heaven) not to move into China without an Imperial Order-something august and rarely given. In Tokyo suppressed excitement grew so thick that Japanese would not have been surprised had civilian Foreign Minister Koki Hirota or War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima been assassinated last week. Japan's man-on-horseback, Emperor Hirohito, and China's Generalissimo Chiang seemed momentarily to face each other in a nose-to-nose stalemate...
...germinating simultaneously in the Japanese fighting service's own high command at Tokyo. This crisis crystallized in the assassination of one of mild Japanese War Minister Senjuro Hayashi's senior general staff officers (TIME, Aug. 26) and the emergence of new and more militant War Minister Yoshiyuki Kawashima. Last week the Tokyo sabre-rattlers were ready to give China what it takes to make an obstreperous wife or nation behave...
...fresh pulse of jingoism shot through the Japanese Army last month when, to wipe out the shaming of the Army's Director of Military Affairs by a fire-eating lieutenant-colonel, mild War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi resigned to make way for less mild General Yoshiyuki Kawashima. Since a Japanese officer's patriotism is measured by his appetite for Chinese territory, patriotic Major General Hayao Tada, whose appetite is enormous, was sent to sprawling, international Tientsin to command the Japanese garrisons in North China. Last week voracious General Tada called in 20 Japanese correspondents to give them...