Word: okura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura, firms that control 62% of the total wealth of Japan (Mr. Gunther calls them "Men of Yen") ; Emperor Kang Teh (formerly Henry Pu-yi) of Manchukuo, "least consequential monarch on earth...
Wright finished his work in 1920. He was in Los Angeles when the big quake hit Tokyo three years later. After ten days of anxious waiting, Wright learned by cable from his friend and client, Baron Okura, that the building had ridden out the quake unharmed while other modern buildings were shaking their masonry into the streets...
...national wealth concentrated in so few hands. Japanese know that control of virtually all banking, Japanese foreign trade & shipping, domestic industry, insurance and even Japanese department stores is closely held by five so-called "Merchant Empires" owned by the Japanese families of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura. These families have continued to wax rich during a decade of deepening Japanese depression. Every Japanese knows that their wealth has fostered corruption of both leading political parties, the Seiyukai and Minseito...