Word: hachiroemon
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Also a poet, as well as a water-colorist and singer of old war songs, is the Senior Baron Hachiroemon, 14th Baron Mitsui and Head of the House. Until last year he left as many details as possible to the gentle, astute old man who was called "the Prime Minister of the Mitsui Empire," Baron Dr. Takuma Dan. Patriots assassinated Dr. Dan (TIME, March 14. 1932), partly because he was supposed to have made too much money for the Mitsuis by selling Japan's yen short before it was taken off gold. Ever since Mitsui short-selling was exposed...
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