Word: fujiwara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ginjiro Fujiwara, Japan's "Paper King" (he virtually controls the production of newsprint), Japan's most positive and noisy industrialist, was also along. A notorious labor-baiter, the Paper King writes sanctimonious essays praising Japan's simple life (i. e., low standard of living), exulting in the fact that even Cabinet Ministers get paid only the equivalent of $200 a month. The Paper King told newspapers that he was out to master the German economy. "I will understand it in one glance of it, being the veteran industrialist served this world for 45 years now," he said...
...many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History indicates that Japan's 124 Goddess-descended Emperors have been happy...
...first time in 86-year-old Prince Saionji's experience the Last of the Genro had made publicly ready to play a smashing trump and failed to get it down his sleeve. If the Fujiwara godling could not sit on Japan's lid last week, then who could...
...Author. A lady as irreproachable in her own behavior as her characters were worldly, Lady Murasaki (Murasaki, no Shikibu) belonged to a junior branch of the Fujiwara family, married a kinsman, joined the court of the Empress Akiko when he died. The Genji Monogatari, in 54 books, was finished in 1004 or a little earlier. Tourists who visit the Lake Biwa Temple of Ishiyama can see what legend calls Lady Murasaki's room and a scrap of the handwriting in which she composed the first Nipponese novel, some 700 years ahead of England's Fielding...