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...Nippon Yushen Kaisha, (Japan Mail Steamship Co. ), greatest trade fleet on the Pacific...
...wealth of the U. S. and that of Japan, John Pierpont Morgan has been reputed comparatively less rich than Mme. Yone Suzuki, 73, "the wealthiest woman in Japan." Awful was the catastrophe last week when this frail, slim lady, garbed as always in the mode of old Nippon, announced briefly that the liabilities of Suzuki & Co. total one quarter of a billion dollars, and that the firm will temporarily suspend payment on certain of its obligations. The ensuing crash on the Tokyo bourse was similar to what might be expected in Wall Street should J. P. Morgan & Co. make...
Shrewd, the councilors of the now diseased Emperor chose as his wife Princess Sadako of the house of Kujo, a family celebrated for its prodigious vitality and proliferousness. She, a sturdy Empress, has deserved well of Nippon...
With edicts couched in such terms as these the Shoguns of Japan banished, not quite three centuries ago, the Jesuit missionaries and Occidental traders who had flocked to Nippon a century earlier, when it was "discovered" by the Portuguese...
...Monument. Japanese hearkened with approval last week as the great Viscount Shibusawa, "the Morgan of Japan," founder of the Dai-ichi Ginko (First National Bank) of Japan, organizer of the world spanning Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Mail Line), financier, industrialist, philanthropist, first "businessman" ever to be created a Japanese peer, announced at Tokyo that he will unveil the Harris Monument in the presence of U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh...