Word: keio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fumio Tanaka and Shosuke Matsumoto, both 24 and friends since boyhood, attended the same high school, fought with the Japanese forces, and are now completing their economic studies at Tokyo's Keio University. Their common background even includes the purge of both their fathers: Tanaka's because he was a wartime cabinet member, Matsu-moto's as a general. However, young Tanaka is a conservative, young Matsumoto a Communist. They typify the two vigorous parties in Japan-and the way Japanese youth is torn...
...downtown hospitals, including that of Keio University, the city's second largest, were gone. Holy Mother (Catholic) Hospital still stood. So did St. Luke's (Protestant Episcopal), largest U.S. mission hospital in the world. The Japanese had renamed it "The Greater East Asia Hospital" and had removed its golden cross...
...this monumental job was born 77 years ago in San Francisco of an Irish father and English mother (who, he says, never really had a place in society because they did not arrive in San Francisco until 1851). He went to Harvard Law School, practiced in Boston, taught at Keio University between 1889 and 1892 (where he helped introduce baseball to Japan), and from 1901 to 1929 was Dean of the Northwestern University Law School. Always called Mister (not Professor), Dean Wigmore did not retire when he became Dean Emeritus, but moved his office to the first floor...