Word: ki
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Parliamentary government replaced feudalism in Japan in 1890. The new system creaked along until 1932 when Japanese Army officers put an end to party government by killing Ki Inukai, the last party Premier. The Japanese Army has dominated every Tokyo Cabinet since the outbreak of the Manchurian War (September...
Japan's present system of peerage, of which the new Premier is a top-ranking member, numbers about 1,000, was established in 1884 as a subtle method of breaking the power of the feudal Samurai. Titles are ki (prince), ko (marquis), haku (count), shi (viscount), dan (baron). All are hereditary titles, all except the first can be conferred on commoners. There is also the equivalent of British knighthood in the Ikai or Kurai. Only in classical poetry or Gilbert & Sullivan is the Emperor called Mikado, is generally called Tenshi (Son of Heaven) or Tenno (Heavenly King...
...world. Molokai is an island to which the Hawaiian Government had exiled all its lepers after a frightful outbreak of the disease, a lawless chaos whose 800 foul inhabitants lived a slow death in huts, with only one another's company and the sweet intoxicating juice of the ki tree for distraction. Father Damien changed that, and in so doing made himself and Molokai famed...
Normally the leader of the Seiyukai Party, which has a huge majority in Japan's Parliament, should have been asked to form a cabinet last week, but Japanese politics have been decidedly abnormal ever since naval petty officers assassinated her last civilian premier, the Hon. Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai two years ago (TIME, May 23, 1932). This crime and other "purifying assassinations," all supposedly performed by patriots, are considered to have put corrupt politicians "on probation"?with no prospect of getting the Government out of the hands of the military for the present. Thus last week Premier Saionji...
When the scraggly-mustached, ascetic General took charge, Japan's tiger was so restive that petty naval officers assassinated Premier Ki Inukai because they considered him a pacifist (TIME, May 23, 1932). Trusting General Araki, the fighting services who despise and hate all Japanese politicians, then settled down to the glorious tiger work of gobbling up Manchukuo and parts of China proper, not forgetting the Japanese naval clawing at Shanghai. Probably the Araki "ride" saved Japanese parliamentary government from being destroyed by a coup...