Word: mitsubishis
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...Kaisha, the Japanese Mail Steamship Co., largest, most luxurious operated by Asiatics. Bland, bespectacled, slightly plump, Mr. Kagami, an incessant smoker of U. S. cigarettes got his technical training in the Occident, sailed home to become an executive genius of Japan's No. 2 house of merchant princes, the Mitsubishi, which controls the N. Y. K. (No. 1 is the House of Mitsui...
...from which all distances in Japan are measured. So sturdy was the Central Railway Station's anti-earthquake bracing that it did not shake down (10). The "Hall of the Nameless Dead" (11) commemorates 33,000 victims of the fire. Major Japanese banks: Bank of Japan, Mitsui Bank, Mitsubishi Bank cluster near each other (12), but the National City Bank of New York is aloof (14). Number 13 is the lucky site of the Imperial Hotel, "most popular in the Far East," refuge of Occidentals during the fire, completely proof against mere earthquakes, though conceivably the earth might open...