Word: fushimi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directing the maneuvers on shore was His Imperial Highness Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi, distant cousin of the Emperor. One day last week it was rumored that H. I. H. had slipped away to sea to take personal command of the last phase. Two days later the tail of a typhoon zigzagged across Japan, leaving 300 dead and more than $9,000,000 of damage, flailing a Japanese flotilla maneuvering off the east coast of Honshu, the Empire's largest island. The furious spiral of wind and water swept 27 officers & men off the destroyer Yugiri, 24 off the destroyer...
...leaping into action. Part of Eimei Kuramoto's job in recent months had 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...
...hero of the Japan Sea battle fought on 27th May, '05; Full Admiral, '04; Chief of Naval Staff. '05; Supreme War Councillor, '09; Admiral of Fleet in 'i 2. Attended King George's Cor- onation on the suite of Prince Higashi-Fushimi; was at a time Lord Tutor to the Crown Prince (Emperor Taisho). Address: Koj. Kamirokuban-cho, Tokyo...