Word: kobayashi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seismograph's needle. For the fourth time in three weeks Premier General Kuniaki Koiso, who is dubbed "The Tiger" and has a catlike talent for landing on his political feet, again shuffled his feet and his Cabinet. He accepted the resignation of portly, aging (68) Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, lover of bridge, ex-governor of Formosa, onetime naval commander in chief, and president of the powerful Imperial Rule Assistance Political Society (Japan's totalitarian party). The Admiral did not sail into retirement. He tacked away on a new job : creating a new, really total, totalitarian party - which might mean...
...Pacific. But diplomats still have direct wires to Berlin, Rome and Tokyo which hum with valuable information from India. The Italian legation arranged the flight from India of rabble-rousing Subhas Chandra Bose. In Rome the Italians are hopefully sheltering exiled King Amanullah (TIME, Nov. 20, 1939). Under Minister Kobayashi Kikuo, a Japanese fifth column belatedly but industriously began operating in the 1930s...
Head of the Japanese mission was Minister of Commerce & Industry Ichizo Kobayashi. The wily Japanese hoped to force the Dutch to pick as chief negotiator someone equal in rank to a Cabinet Minister, i.e., Governor General Jonkheer A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, who is not the tough customer Hubertus van Mook is. The Dutch did no such thing. Twelve days after the Japanese delegation arrived, while small Minister Kobayashi was being escorted around by a guard of honor picked for stature and bulk, Queen Wilhelmina cabled Batavia the appointment of Van Mook as Cabinet...
...terms of Pacific, not simply Indies, economics. He found his right niche in 1934 when he entered the Department of Economic Affairs. In 1936 he represented the Indies at the Pan-Pacific Conference in California, and there he met that veteran diplomat, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, who was to succeed Ichizo Kobayashi as negotiator for Japan with the Indies...
With Negotiator Kobayashi, Hubertus van Mook had an easy time. When Kobayashi opened the negotiations by asking for oil, Minister van Mook explained that he was a member of a Government, not a merchant ; Mr. Kobayashi had better negotiate directly with the oil companies. The companies having been tipped off, Kobayashi managed to get 1,800,000 tons of crude and refined oil, but no aviation gasoline. Then it was revealed that the British had contracted for the Indies' entire high-octane output. Kobayashi discovered that it was necessary for him to return home for the 2,600th anniversary...