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Suga, Yoshihide

(Encyclopedia)Suga, Yoshihide, 1948—, Japanese political leader. A member of the Liberal Democratic party, he was first elected to the Japan...

Tanaka, Kakuei

(Encyclopedia)Tanaka, Kakuei käko͞oˈā tänäˈkä [key], 1918–93, Japanese political leader and prime minister (1972–74). Born to a poor rural family, he moved to Tokyo at the age of 15 and by 1937 had esta...

Open Door

(Encyclopedia)Open Door, maintenance in a certain territory of equal commercial and industrial rights for the nationals of all countries. As a specific policy, it was first advanced by the United States, but it was...

Chiang Kai-shek

(Encyclopedia)Chiang Kai-shek jyäng kī-shĕk, jyäng [key], 1887–1975, Chinese Nationalist leader. He was also called Chiang Chung-cheng. After completing military training with the Japanese Army, he returned t...

Kurusu, Saburo

(Encyclopedia)Kurusu, Saburo säˌbo͞orōˈ ko͞oro͞oˈso͞o [key], 1886–1954, Japanese career diplomat. As ambassador to Germany from 1939 to 1941, he signed the Berlin Pact (Sept., 1940). A special envoy to W...

Golovnin, Vasily Mikhailovich

(Encyclopedia)Golovnin, Vasily Mikhailovich vəsēˈlyē mēkhīˈləvĭch gələvnyēnˈ [key], 1776–1831, Russian explorer and writer. Sent in 1807 to make a geographical survey of Kamchatka and the Russian pos...

Inukai, Ki

(Encyclopedia)Inukai, Ki (Tsuyoshi) kē ĭno͞oˈkī; tso͞oyōˈshē [key], 1855–1932, Japanese statesman. He became president of the Seiyukai party in 1929 and was prime minister from Jan. to May, 1932. His cab...

Pratas Island

(Encyclopedia)Pratas Island do͝ongˈshäˈ [key], in the South China Sea, controlled by Taiwan and administered as part of Kaohsiung. A national park, the island is part of an atoll and has guano deposits. It was ...

Rozhdestvenski, Zinovi Petrovich

(Encyclopedia)Rozhdestvenski, Zinovi Petrovich zēnôˈvē pētrôˈvĭch rəzhdyĭstvyĕnˈskē [key], 1848–1909, Russian admiral. Commander of the Baltic fleet at the time of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5,...

Sacheon

(Encyclopedia)Sacheon säˈchônˈ [key], city (1995 pop. 113,492), South Gyeongsang (Kyongsang) prov., S South Korea, on the Korea Strait. It is a port city on Sacheon Bay, with aerospace, machinery, and metalwork...