Word: meiji
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sugar Scandal. To cap the crisis in Tokyo there broke half open last week the colossal scandal of Meiji Sugar Co. The police admitted, informally, that they dared not and did not propose to arrest the exceedingly prominent Japanese involved. They did arrest a former Deputy of the Minseito (Opposition) Party, Ejiro Miyoshi, wealthy publisher...
...police thought, had taken a bribe of 100,000 yen ($50,000 at par) to keep quiet about an evasion of taxes by Meiji Sugar Co. amounting to 10,000,000 ($5,000,000). This evasion was accomplished by bribes, after which the blackmailing began. In all Meiji Sugar Co. was said to have been "squeezed...
...Haneda airdrome near Tokyo one morning last week. There was many a speech, a song especially composed. A message of "highest regard" to President Hoover was handed over by the publisher of the Hochi Shimbun. Then youthful Seiji ("Kite Crazy") Yoshihara gulped a swig of consecrated sake from the Meiji shrine and jumped into his little low-wing Junkers seaplane. Someone pulled down the flag and handed it to the airman and he was off for Washington, D. C., alone...