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...world trade, most Japanese firms budgeted only a nominal amount for advertising and often treated this simply as a good-will fund. An advertising salesman would be politely received by a minor official, and, with typical courtesy, would be given a small ad or a modest fee, known as ashi dai (taxi fare or, more literally, feet...
...been writing firm but minor complaints on specific acts of anti-Japanese boycotting and agitation. Had he been kidnapped? Had he been murdered? Japan's Navy did not wait to find out. The gunboat Fushimi already lay in the river opposite Nanking. Within a few hours the destroyer Ashi joined her. Downstream the cruiser Tsushima swung around. Admiral Sunjiro Imamura on his flagship Idzumo was at Hankow. 400 miles in the interior...
...Japan, 20 miles northeast of Mihoseki. The fleet broke up into attacking and defending parties. The defending warships threw out a smoke screen to hide the flashes of their guns. Bombardment be- gan under battle conditions. Cutting through the sea at full speed, the 850-ton destroyers Warabi and Ashi rode out to meet the "enemy," dashing fearlessly through the man-made fog. Out of the gloom rose of a sudden two ironclad monsters, the 6,000-ton cruisers Jintsu and Naka. Too late to turn, useless to reverse en- gines-into the hulking cruisers the tiny destroyers crashed with...
...cruiser Jintsu, with a great gaping hole made by the Warabi, listed forward sharply and was towed in this precarious condition toward the Maizuru dockyards by the Kongo. The Ashi was also towed toward land by the Abukama. Neither cruiser lost any men. Total casualties were therefore 129 officers...