Word: meiji
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only the Meiji would know. Firm in this conviction a spruce file of puzzled Japanese Army officers rode out from Tokyo one dawn last week to a pungent park of pine and camphor trees. They crossed a gurgling brook, entered a spotlessly clean quadrangle and faced with awe the Meiji Shrine, an unpainted wooden building, austere, impressive and, to Japanese, sublime...
Painful were these revelations to Tokyo's Mayor, popular Hidejiro Nagata, who with flying coattails has opened many a baseball game at Tokyo's Stadium in the Meiji Grounds, and who is a national figure, renowned for sturdy patriotism, sage wit. Though no slightest suspicion pointed at either Mr. Nagata or at any of his kin, he promptly scapegoated, announced his resignation as Mayor of Tokyo with this terse explanation, "I desire to embrace full responsibility...
Good Sport-Japan's Imperial House has no name. On April 29, 1901 the present Emperor was born and named Hirohito while his grandfather the great Emperor Meiji was yet alive. Because his father was strong neither in body nor in mind (though he begot four lusty sons), Prince Hirohito was thrust into every form of sport, even wrestling. Justly and modestly he has observed: "I am not really good at any sport. In swimming, however, I rather think I can hold...
...mold his mind into stern channels the young Prince received as his first tutor General Nogi, famed for his bloody capture of Port Arthur. When Emperor Meiji died, Tutor Nogi impressed his pupil by reviving the custom of junshi (''following in death"). He and Mrs. Nogi committed harakiri. Two years later the Crown Prince received a: tutor the resolute Admiral Togo who had destroyed the entire Russian fleet at the Battle of the Sea of Japan and who remains alive to this day, telling the tale...
...Control of Japan by men of politics instead of men of the sword is a new-fangled arrangement, dating de jure from the reign of Emperor Meiji who introduced an Occidental (Prussian) style of Constitution in 1889 and de facto from the founding of Japan's oldest political party (Seiyukai) in 1900. Naturally the Army & Navy with their ancient traditions scorn Japanese Constitutionalism which is only in its swaddling clothes. The lower classes (both proletarians arid peasants) tend to approve each fresh assassination of a politician or financier by a civilian or a member of the fighting services...