Word: genro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a little old man died in Japan. He was respectfully mourned in his own country, but out across the world his passing was recognized as the passing of an era. Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 91, last of the Genro, or Elder Statesmen, was also the last representative of the age in Japan which was dedicated to what today's Japanese call "dangerous thoughts"-the age of Liberalism...
...Vienna and Berlin, president of the Privy Council, vice president of the House of Peers, twice Minister of Education, four times Foreign Minister, twice Premier, and chief delegate of Japan to the Paris Peace Conference. He helped draft Japan's liberal constitution. But his greatest service was as Genro-adviser to the Emperor, "midwife in the birth of new Premiers...
...builder that today the ancestor's face ennobles ten-yen notes, and his diary, which Prince Konoye owns, is valued at $12,500 a page. Konoye's father was an intimate, and he has been a protégé, of Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), who at 90 is almost a demigod. Prince Konoye is one of a handful who can come & go at the Imperial Household at will, and can sprawl in a chair before the Emperor. He is said to be the only man in Japan who has said no, pointblank...