Word: mikados
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild reports in the headlines of the nation's presses about the air raids on Japanese cities creating panic among the Mikado's citizens are unfounded, according to Edwin O. Reischauer, Instructor in the Far Eastern Languages, of the Yenching Institute, who was born in Tokio, and has spent most of his life in the Far East...
...such a quake hits them again, it will certainly upset the Mikado's apple cart," Landsberg said. "Most of the dwellings in Tokyo and Yokohoma are flimsy, wooden things. It would take months of concentrated bombing to equal that damage inflicted by a sudden release of the tremendous energy stored in the bowels of the earth...
Crashing south toward Singapore, the Jap had more than the glory of the Mikado to drive him on. He was in a desperate race with time, and if he could not beat the hands of the clock, his push to the strategic hub of the Far East was going to be a historic failure...
Sirs: The news that Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado was called off for patriotic reasons surprised me mightily. In the first place it has no trace of Japanese or pseudo-Japanese music except the chorus Miya Sama, Miya Sama. ... In the second place, the whole opera is exceedingly offensive to all Japanese because of its flippant treatment of their divine Mikado. . . . So let's not deprive ourselves of some fine entertainment and a chance to insult the Japs. . . . J. C. THOMPSON Borinquen Field...
...chief job of the consular police was organization of the Ronin, cellular organizations of youths educated in U.S. schools and preserved in their devotion to the Mikado by classes in Japanese schools. For these the Consul General chose many of the teachers, and they were probably spies too. Both the consular police and the Ronin were financed by the Consul General...