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Yellowmen emigrated from Japan to the U. S. too fast, are now excluded. Smart, the sons of Nippon are not making that mistake again in Brazil. A sheaf of figures just released at Rio de Janeiro shows that only 11,231 Japanese immigrated last year-and they were not little yellowfolk but big, brown, burly. The Imperial Japanese Government knows the reason-is the reason-why strapping Japanese exclusively are entering Brazil in a slow but sure procession. "It is considered," reads a suave semi-official bulletin from the Home Office at Tokyo, "that great injustice would be done...
...kilowatt hours of current. In the U. S. only three companies-Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power Corp. System, the Commonwealth Edison Co. and the New York Edison Co. System-surpassed it. The Tokyo company serves 11,395 sq. mi. across the most populous and highly developed midsection of Nippon, Japan's main island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon...
...economics, international law and politics. Upon completion of his studies he entered the Emperor's department of Agriculture and Commerce. But he soon left government service for business. He is president of the Toyo Iron Mfg. Co., a director of the Teikoku Commercial Bank, and an adviser to Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Mail Steamship...
Keio University was founded 60 years ago and has always been one of the strongest-sponsors of baseball in Nippon. As far back as 1912, as keio University nine came to America...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda, missionary, onetime president of St. Paul's University, Tokyo, and first Japanese Bishop of the Diocese of the Nippon Sei Ko Kwai (Holy Catholic Church of Japan), of heart disease; in Tokyo. Consecrated Bishop in Dec. 1923, his first act was to set about the restoration of his diocese, laid waste by earthquake three months before...