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Word: nakajima (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chrysanthemums which lasted 56 years split the Empire. For Shogun Takauji Ashikaga, though he promulgated an admirable list of moral precepts, the Ashikaga Law Code, Japanese text books and histories still reserve the place of ''blackest traitor in the history of the Empire." In 1924 Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, potent ironmonger and merchant with a scholarly flair, attempted to whitewash Traitor Takauji in a magazine article, praising him as a vanquisher of despots and a lawgiver and concluded by renaming him Japan's Oliver Cromwell. Few took notice of Ironmonger Nakajima's article. Last week Baron Nakajima...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Such a Small Thing | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

Crisp and businesslike is Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, onetime Tokyo stockbroker, now Minister of Commerce & Industry. Last week he ruffled through a sheaf of amazing figures hot from the Japanese Federation of Cotton Textile Manufacturers. They showed what a spunky little Empire can do in two short years to a big, bumbling Empire-the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Britons Beaten? | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

Fear that the economic struggle might lead to war caused British, Indian and Japanese delegates to meet at Simla in September for a secretive Cotton Conference at which haggling continued last week. Japan, hampered but not hamstrung, has continued to dump. Last week, according to the figures in Minister Nakajima's hands, Japan had outstripped Britain in cotton cloth exports for the first time in history. In the first eight months of this year Japan exported 1,392,000,000 square yards. Britain 1,386,000,000. Since Britain has reigned for a century and more as the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Britons Beaten? | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

Hovering near Death, the Prime Minister received three blood transfusions, the first from his younger son Iwane, the second and third from his secretary Yadanji Nakajima. When the Lion was asked if his elder cub Kazuhiko should be summoned from his banking job in Manhattan, he replied: "No, Kazuhiko has work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Wounded Lion | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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