Word: kawamura
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...birth (1850) the last Shogun of Japan, Keiki, still held as military regent the power which had slipped from the Mikados some seven centuries before. When Kawamura was three years old, Commodore Perry, U. S. N., sailed into the harbor of Uraga near Yedo (Tokyo) with four ships and roused slumbering Nippon from the so-called "Oriental stagnation" from which China is now clumsily emerging...
...young Kawamura enlisted in the army of the Great Mikado, Meiji, father of the present sovereign, who proceeded to overthrow the Shogunate (1868) and restored to the present reigning house the supreme power, which it has theoretically held for 122 generations?since the dawn of Japanese history...
During the Chino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars (1894-95 and 1904-5) Kawamura rose through numerous preferments, until at the great victory of Mukden (1905) he was commander-in-chief of the Yalu Army. Thereafter he was made a Viscount, received the Order of the Golden Kite (First Class), and settled down upon the Supreme Military Council of a World Power which had been almost unknown to the Occident at his birth...
...death, the aged Field Marshal was present at the Imperial Shrine, in Tokyo, when a sleepy-eyed great-granddaughter of "The Restorer," Mikado Meiji, was presented to her Imperial grandfather. The tiny Princess Teru-No-Miya Shigeko, born only last December (TIME, Dec. 14), cooed at Field Marshal Viscount Kawamura. A question seemed lurking in his eyes. It is not known how great a destiny awaits Japan in the Princess' lifetime...
Died. Viscount Kageakira Kawamura, 76, Field Marshal of Japan; in Tokyo. (See JAPAN...