Word: karuizawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan; his mother, one of Japan's leading Christians, woman suffragists and peace advocates and the first Japanese woman to own and ride a bicycle, was Japan's woman delegate to the League of Nations, The Hague Convention and the Washington disarmament talks. They were interned at Karuizawa during...
Empress Dowager Sadako of Japan, moon-faced "Mother of God," finally came down from the heaven-nestling mountain resort of Karuizawa for a palace visit with her Emperor son. She had ascended about the time of Japan's surrender, remained on high ever since...
...Prince Fumimaro Konoye, thrice Premier of Japan, and Tojo's predecessor. He had been working ostentatiously on a new, liberal constitution for Japan. Last week, friends reported him "lost in meditation" at his villa in fashionable Karuizawa...
Saburo Kurusu, "peace" envoy to the U.S. when Pearl Harbor was attacked, is now "busily engaged in tilling his garden" in the mountain town of Karuizawa, said Radio Tokyo...