Word: kobes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much grander and more glorious scale (see p. 21). Japan has many objectives, but a very big one is to scare the biggest Chinese city, Shanghai, into dropping the boycott of Japanese goods now general throughout China, and into buying Japanese goods. The big businessmen of Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe were under the strange but powerful impression last week that by employing Might in its crudest form the Japanese Empire can sell to China. After all, what was "The Opium War?" Chinese say it was a successful exhibition of Might by the British Empire to sell British opium to Chinese...
...sport of wrestling. Nowadays Japanese newspapers must report the world's series from the U. S. play by play. Last week a syndicate, backed by Japanese tycoons and resident foreigners, announced plans to form the first Japanese professional league, with two teams in Tokyo, one each in Yokohama, Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka...
Acclaimed by a madly cheering throng of 15,000 when he landed at Kobe last week, Mr. Wakatsuki remained imperturbable, poker-faced, told ship-news reporters crisply that he would take no part in the current Japanese political squabble over whether the Treaty should ever have been signed or, having been signed, should now be ratified (TIME, June 2). "I wish to emphasize that I had nothing to do with the Japanese Government's decision to sign the Treaty, nor shall I have anything to do with its final ratification by the Privy Council," were almost the Chief Delegate...
...Kato's favorite protege on the naval staff of which he is chief was Lieu-enant-Commander Yeiji Kusakari, scion of an old Samurai clan of deathless bravery, a highstrung man of 40, husband of a devoted wife, father of four. This officer last week engaged a berth at Kobe on the night express for Tokyo. Along toward dawn the conductor heard groans from his compartment, knocked diffidently, received no answer, debated for some time before he dared to unlock a staff officer's door...
More than the cotton strikes at Osaka and Kobe was at the back of last week's exchange closing. Within the past two years the value of shares listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has fallen 30%. The removal of the embargo on gold shipments out of Japan has seriously depleted the country's gold reserve. Decreased U. S. demand for raw silk has brought a slump to Japan's chief export industry. Last week's cotton strike, and a hint of further labor troubles, brought Japanese brokers to panic's edge. Deeply concerned was the cabinet of Prime Minister...