Word: nippon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much attention was attracted to the Japanese style of swimming at the recent Olympic games, held in Los Angeles during the summer of 1932. At that time, the Nippon team, a hitherto rather mediocre squad, showed a sudden speed and stamina which swept all opposition before it and gained the swimming crown for the Japanese...
...Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha
...expansion by merger has been the rule in Japanese utilities, but more than one-half the power is still produced by small units supplying villages or small districts. The big companies, always grouped as the "Big Five"-Tokyo Electric, Great Consolidated Electric Power Co. (Daido). Toho Electric Power Co., Nippon Electric Power Co., Ujigawa Electric Power Co.-produce about 37% of all Japanese current sold. Although the bulk of their capital came out of Japanese pockets, each of the Big Five has sold bonds abroad; nearly $115.000,000 of their dollar issues are outstanding in the U. S. Toho Electric...
...trade. In his Fascist forge Benito Mussolini hammered three big Italian firms into the Italia Line, cocky owner of the new S. S. Rex and S. S. Conte di Savoia. Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson interests combined to take over tottering U. S. Lines. Japan's two largest shipping companies, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Co.) and Osaka Shosen Kaisha (Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co.) last year agreed to divide some of their far-flung traffic. Last week it was reported that officials of these two big lines were negotiating an actual consolidation...
...Nippon Yusen Kaisha is a big if not rich province in the business empire of the Iwasaki, Japan's No. 2 industrial family. Under the family trade name, Mitsubishi ("Three Diamonds," derived from their crest), they own steel works, shipbuilding plants, chemical, electrical equipment and airplane factories, banks, insurance companies, trading companies, urban real estate. As industrial pioneers they rank ahead of the omnipotent house of Mitsui, Japan's No. 1 family. But unlike the ancient house of Mitsui, the Iwasaki fortune dates only from Japan's first industrial stirrings 60 years ago. And unlike the Mitsui...