Word: yukie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversations between the Japan Economic Federation and the Foreign Office, the mission was organized last February, thoroughly feted in Tokyo, written up in a special supplement of the Osaka Mainichi and the Tokyo Nichi Nichi, blessed at length by the then Prime Minister Senjuro Hayashi, Finance Minister Toyotaro Yuki and Foreign Minister Naotake Sato and showered with confetti ribbons as it sailed from Yokohama on April 28. The party of ten Japanese industrialists had no intention of making any immediate trade agreements. Avowed their chairman, sunny President Chokyuro Kadono of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce: "The primary consideration . . . was that...
...Cabinet led by handle-bar-mustached Premier General Senjuro Hayashi who had whittled down the customary 13 Cabinet officers to eight, pocketing the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and Education for himself. Premier Hayashi, moreover, had given every vital Cabinet job to a general or admiral, except that President Toyotaro Yuki of the Industrial Bank of Japan received the thankless post of Finance Minister, must somehow find the billions which Japan's fighting services demand...
...that portfolio to Kotaro Nakamura. Last week Kotaro Nakamura, after being in office for only one week, conveniently fell ill, and to the undisguised joy of the Army, General Sugi yama was given his job. The new War Minister at once showed his gratitude by announcing to Finance Minister Yuki that "the Army would not consent to a reduction of its $205,000,000 budget...