Word: kabayama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Count Aisuke Kabayama, 88, U.S.-educated organizer of Japan's first international news agency, Kokusai Tsushin (1914), who was arrested by the Japanese police in 1945, two months before his country's surrender, for attempting secret peace negotiations with the Allies; in Tokyo...
Crows & Bombing Planes. In 1895, after its defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, China was forced to cede Formosa to Japan. Admiral Viscount Kabayama, appointed Japan's first governor general, sailed down to Formosa in triumph, released from his flagship as a sign of victory a pair of crows. Their descendants still make Formosan daybreaks raucous...
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