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Word: mitsubishis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: No Nero; New Tokyo | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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