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Famed Japanese publicists Teisuka Akiyama and Seijiro Kawashima detonated into lurid phrase again last week, called upon Japan to declare war on the U. S., rehashed with venom the celebrated "Hanihara incident."† (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Heaven-Decreed War | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...night. Samuel Hill '79, as whose guests the two wrestlers have come to this country, gave a short history of the art in introducing them. He said in part: Jiudo first became known in Japan in the sixteenth century, and its origin is traced to a learned physician named Akiyama, who at that time lived in Nagasaki. While studying in China he acquired some knowledge of an athletic system known as Hakuda, then much practiced by the Chinese. He learned three different methods of Hakuda as well as twenty-eight ways of recovering a man from apparent death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JIUJITSU EXHIBITION | 6/17/1904 | See Source »

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