Word: kokusai
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...this, Curator Tomita and Director Edgell hit upon the notion of borrowing a lot more Japanese Art and giving a big show in conjunction with Harvard's Tercentenary. President Count Kentaro Kaneko (Class of 1878) of the Harvard Club of Tokyo collaborated enthusiastically. So did the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, the Society for International Cultural Relations. Curator Tomita, who knows all the first-rank collectors in Japan, went to Tokyo in April. Director Edgell arrived in May, charmed the Japanese by laying flowers on the tomb of Professor Ernest Fenollosa, who gave the Museum of Fine Arts some...
Observers noted cynically that the conflagration was about the only fire in a century which the Japanese have not been able to lay to the door of "Korean rebels" or an earthquake. An inventory of the damage revealed that the premises of The Japanese Times, famed sheetlet of the Kokusai News Agency, had been badly singed...