Word: yuko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among politicians throughout Japan extreme indignation seethed at this decision by the Navy. Only a few days prior the Japanese Supreme Court had sustained the death sentence of the civilian Tomekichi Sagoya who also alleged patriotic motives for his shooting of Premier Yuko ("The Lion") Hamaguchi (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Unlike "The Old Fox" who died instanter at the hands of his Naval petty officer assassins, "The Lion" recovered partially from his wounds, lingered through a winter, spring and summer before dying. Why death for Civilian Tomekichi Sagoya, who almost failed to kill, when mere imprisonment was the sentence...
First assassinated was Yuko Hamaguchi, the onetime Premier whose concessions to peace in the London Naval Treaty cost him his life; Second Junnosuke Inouye, the soundest and most brilliant Japanese Finance Minister in a generation; and Third Dr. Dan?to name only the Big Three. Biggest as a Peace Man, from the practical standpoint, was Banker Dan. He had thrown the weight of Mitsui Gomel Kaisha against war, unsuccessfully...
...Heaven who thus equipped him with sufficient social prestige to represent Japan fittingly at the Washington Conference (1921-22). Since then he has been several times Foreign Minister, served as Acting Premier (TIME, Nov. 24) when his old friend and classmate at the Tokyo Imperial University, Premier Yuko Hamaguchi ("The Lion") was skewered by a would-be assassin's dagger and lingered on to die last month...
...Died. Yuko Hamaguchi, 61, onetime (1929-31) premier of Japan; of ill health resulting from wounds received in an attempted assassination (TIME, Nov. 24. 1930); in Tokyo. Born Yuko Mizoguchi, he was adopted by a rich Samuraian, married his daughter and took his name, but in politics he was always the champion of the people. Rising to leadership of the Minsei-to (Liberal) party, he became Minister of Finance in 1924, restored the yen and helped rehabilitate the country devastated by the 1923 earthquake. He became Premier in 1929 and in the face of bitter opposition and active plotting obtained...
Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, dauntless old "Lion of Japan," has simply not recovered sufficiently from the assassin's wound he received last year (TIME, Nov. 17). Failing in strength, the grand old statesman resigned, both as Prime Minister and as Leader of the Minseito (Liberal Party...