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Nippon Yusen Kaisha is a big if not rich province in the business empire of the Iwasaki, Japan's No. 2 industrial family. Under the family trade name, Mitsubishi ("Three Diamonds," derived from their crest), they own steel works, shipbuilding plants, chemical, electrical equipment and airplane factories, banks, insurance companies, trading companies, urban real estate. As industrial pioneers they rank ahead of the omnipotent house of Mitsui, Japan's No. 1 family. But unlike the ancient house of Mitsui, the Iwasaki fortune dates only from Japan's first industrial stirrings 60 years ago. And unlike the Mitsui...
Crescent's Tip, Petite Masako, Baroness Shidehara is an Iwasaki, daughter of Japan's No. 2 house of merchant princes (Mitsubishi), the famed Mitsui being No. 1. When she married Diplomat Shidehara he was no baron though he belonged to a Samurai (feudal sword bearer) family. In the past 30 years he has held diplomatic posts almost everywhere, but got his real leg up to greatness as Chief of the Telegraph Section of the Foreign Office, a key post because the holder has access to all Foreign Office codes & secrets, and secrets play a major role in the devious statecraft...
...owners are one of Japan's great families, the House of Iwasaki. She flys the "N. Y. K." flag of the Japan mail steamship company, famed Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Beaming with satisfaction her passengers debarked from the first trans-Pacific "Cabin Class" ($250), from the first trans-Pacific "Tourist Third" ($125). Hitherto it has cost some $300 to cross the Pacific in First and to cross in plain Second or plain Third has been even more infra dig; than on the Atlantic...
...twelve richest men in the world: Henry Ford, $550,000,000; John D. Rockefeller, $500,000,000; The Duke of Westminster, $150,000,000; myself, $125,000,000; Sir Basil Zaharoff, $100,000,000; Hugo Stinnes, $100,000,000; Baron H. Mitsui, $100,000,000; Baron K. Iwasaki, $100,000,000; T. B. Walker, perhaps less than...