Word: kaneko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thinking of ways to call Boston's attention to all this, Curator Tomita and Director Edgell hit upon the notion of borrowing a lot more Japanese Art and giving a big show in conjunction with Harvard's Tercentenary. President Count Kentaro Kaneko (Class of 1878) of the Harvard Club of Tokyo collaborated enthusiastically. So did the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, the Society for International Cultural Relations. Curator Tomita, who knows all the first-rank collectors in Japan, went to Tokyo in April. Director Edgell arrived in May, charmed the Japanese by laying flowers on the tomb of Professor Ernest...
...purpose in coming to Harvard is to see this great institution that has contributed so many distinguished men to Japan. Two of the greatest statesmen in modern Japan, Mr. Komura and Viscount Kaneko, have received degrees from Harvard. Naturally, I could not leave Harvard without seeing President Lowell...
...After a lapse of 28 years," wrote Viscount Kaneko, "I do not pretend to repeat the exact word of the President, but their substance made an ineffaceable impression which can never be forgotten as long as I live...
Last week gentle, white-haired Viscount Kentaro Kaneko, Harvard 1878, Privy Councilor of Japan, came forward with an articlee in Contemporary Japan to explain that he was the person to whom President Roosevelt had suggested a Japanese Monroe Doctrine. The Viscount said it had occurred during a rocking chair conversation at Sagamore Hill in 1905 while Russian and Japanese delegates were negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War. He explained that it has never before been published because he had promised President Roosevelt not to do so while the latter remained in office or afterward except...