Word: kobe
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...Kobe (to people whose Emperor is divine) : "Have you in Japan ever thought that in your imperialistic aims you may end as a republic...
...Kobe (advising Japan to take up birth control): "There is no reason why Japan should continue to expand and demand the right to overflow other countries which naturally resent an influx of a lower civilization...
Japanese militarists have sworn to take Ozaki's life; failure to do so would mean for them a tremendous loss of "face." No sooner was his steamer, the Terukuni Maru, inside Kobe harbor than police arrested three members of a terrorist club attempting to board the ship. Dr. Ozaki smiled at his two pretty daughters, then stepped down the gangplank to a waiting automobile. Other amateur assassins were on the dock. Two of them broke through a police cordon brandishing heavy cudgels, shouting "Wait, Ozaki, wait!" They too were arrested. Unruffled, Dr. Ozaki agreed to return to the ship...
...thousand Japanese and squads of police stood on the docks at Kobe last week to watch a brave little old gentleman come home to what he believes certain assassination. The performance began almost immediately...
...Japan-born Alvin K. Aurell, son of a Kansas-born missionary, today branch manager in Yokohama for Singer Sewing Machine Co. Mr. Aurell was not exactly alarmed. Singer's labor troubles in Japan began more than a year ago, caused the company to close its Osaka and Kobe branches last November. Last week Manager Aurell sat calmly eating his lunch when a large motor truck drove up to his branch, dumped a load of cordwood in front of the door...