Word: yuko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country's gold reserve. Decreased U. S. demand for raw silk has brought a slump to Japan's chief export industry. Last week's cotton strike, and a hint of further labor troubles, brought Japanese brokers to panic's edge. Deeply concerned was the cabinet of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi. A Tokyo correspondent quoted the opinion of several cabinet members that "the present condition of the market is due to manipulation in which the political opposition was concerned...
...million Japanese went to the polls last week in the second general election since Japan adopted universal manhood suffrage. Nearly all of them voted for Prime Minister Yuko "Shishi" (i. e. "The Lion") Hamaguchi. The Minseito, his party, gained 101 new seats (giving them 273 of the 466 parliamentary seats) in the most impressive vote of confidence given any Japanese Government in a generation. Bristle-haired Prime Minister "Shishi" who had led his campaign himself on a platform of government economy, balancing the budget without foreign loans, foreign conciliation, restoration of the gold standard, was delighted. Delighted too, were foreign...
...Foreign Minister Kijuro Shidehara last week. Not only was he explaining Japan's policy at the London Naval Conference, but in view of the approaching general elections, ordered by the Emperor for Feb. 20, he was defending the record and policies of the Prime Minister, shaggy-haired Yuko ("Shishi") Hamaguchi...