Word: kumakichi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chrysanthemums which lasted 56 years split the Empire. For Shogun Takauji Ashikaga, though he promulgated an admirable list of moral precepts, the Ashikaga Law Code, Japanese text books and histories still reserve the place of ''blackest traitor in the history of the Empire." In 1924 Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, potent ironmonger and merchant with a scholarly flair, attempted to whitewash Traitor Takauji in a magazine article, praising him as a vanquisher of despots and a lawgiver and concluded by renaming him Japan's Oliver Cromwell. Few took notice of Ironmonger Nakajima's article. Last week Baron Nakajima...
Crisp and businesslike is Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, onetime Tokyo stockbroker, now Minister of Commerce & Industry. Last week he ruffled through a sheaf of amazing figures hot from the Japanese Federation of Cotton Textile Manufacturers. They showed what a spunky little Empire can do in two short years to a big, bumbling Empire-the British...
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