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Baron D. Kikuchi, of Kyoto, Japan, formerly Minister of Education, and president of the Tokyo Imperial University, now president of the Kyoto Imperial University, will deliver an address on Japanese National Development in the Fogg Museum this evening at 8 o'clock...
...typhoon, striking at 60 m. p. h. and increasing to 120 m. p. h., headed straight into the dragon's throat where are the great tea plantations, the textile and munitions factories of Japan's second largest city, Osaka, the great port of Kobe, and ancient imperial Kyoto. These are three of Japan's five biggest cities...
Screaming northeast, the Taifu swept on Kyoto, tumbled 17 more flimsy primary schools, of which one caught fire and incinerated the children. Then it curved toward the north, narrowly missed shivering Tokyo, and spent itself in, the Sea of Japan...
...obscure, ambitious general deserted the once potent Hoji family of military tyrants and threw his army on the side of the exiled Emperor Go Daigo. The Emperor's side won. Having set Go Daigo, descendant of the Sun Goddess, back on his throne in Kyoto, Takauji Ashikaga lost no time in pulling himself up by the sacred boot straps of the Emperor. As the Emperor's most trusted adviser he hoped to become Shogun. When Go Daigo appointed his son instead, Takauji, furious but resourceful, persuaded the Emperor that his son was a traitor...
...three daughters of millionaires, the daughters of a peer and a fashionable surgeon, several sons of generals and bankers, a socialite clerk of the Foreign Office, six junior naval officers (promptly court martialed), two professors-one from the Imperial University of Tokyo, the other from the Imperial University of Kyoto-and Toshio Shibata whose father is Chief Secretary of the Japanese Cabinet...