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...year (1853) which brought Commodore Perry and the West to Japan, brought to the Samurai (military gentry) family of Motoyama in Kumamoto a son, named Hikoichi. In time he was graduated from Keio University, became successively a government official, financial manager of a newspaper, director of reclamation projects. At 36 he took over a struggling political daily in Osaka, "Pittsburgh of Japan." Renaming it Mainichi (Every Day), he banished partisanship, began introducing the brisk interest of Western journalism. Japanese liked it so well that he was soon able to buy control of Tokyo's Nichi-Nichi...
...date of the University baseball game with the Alumni team has been changed from Wednesday, June 8, to Tuesday, June 7. A game with Boston University has been added to the schedule for April 13, and a game with Keio University, scheduled for June 18, has been cancelled...
...University basketball game with Holy Cross on January 20, 1932 will be replaced by a game with Providence College on the same date. The baseball schedule has been lengthened with a game with Keio University of Japan on June...
...girl is due a great deal to the introduction of baseball and other Western sports. The young Japanese of today is on the average an inch taller and six pounds heavier than was the case 30 years ago. . . . Miyatake, the Babe Ruth of Japan, who pitches for Keio University, is 5 ft. 11 in. tall...
Hunter first visited Japan in 1920, when he was invited by Professor Isoo Abe to coach at Waseda University. Wealthier Keio University offered him a job; he coached there in 1921. In 1928 he coached from college to college in Tokyo's Six University League with famed outfielder...