Word: samurais
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...cruiser Kinugasa last week at Kobe, spoke with feeling of great Admiral Togo, now 78, who lay at that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations, emerging from their mutual war preoccupation, will soon begin again to interpenetrate the Orient...
...until she reached Detroit last week was real attention paid this young woman by newsgatherers. Then the fact was broadcast that the Yum-Yum of the Messrs. Shubert's Mikado road company, was none other than Hisa Koike ("Eternal-Life Small-Lake"), 19, descendant of proud Samurai,f whose ambition vaults not only as high as grand opera but also beyond the roles to which Japanese prima donnas have always been limited in the Occident-Madame Butterfly, Madame Chrysantheme, Lena in La Princesse Jaune. It was to be a Marguerite, a Lady Marian, a Xenia, that Hisa Koike, after...
...recent swimming exhibition off the famed Isshiki Beach, Prince Hirohito donned a bathing suit, seized a rifle, and entering the water, proved his skill at the peculiar Japanese pastime of shooting at a target while treading water. Later he applauded enthusiastically a group of expert swimmers who donned ancient Samurai suits of metal armor and thus clad swam an exciting race. As everyone knows, the Prince of Wales and Prince Regent Hirohito played a game of golf on the Komazawa links (1923) in which Edward won by a point-a fact patriotically concealed at the time by the Japanese press...