Word: yoshiyuki
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...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...
...officer, belonging to the Army's fire-eating "Ginger Group," of its more moderate Director of Military Affairs (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week's solution: un-Gingery old war Minister General Senjuro Hayashi "accepted responsibility," the Son of Heaven accepted his resignation, and new War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima was hopefully called entirely neutral but more sympathetic to the Ginger Group by Japanese newsorgans...