Word: taisho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giant for a Japanese, Admiral Yonai stands 5 ft. 10 in his big-toed socks and is filling his first big political post. All his life a sea officer, shrewd enough to avoid political squabbles, 57-year-old Mitsumasa Yonai received the flag of a Taisho or full admiral only last December, though he had been a Chui or sublieutenant under the great Togo at the Battle of Tsushima Strait. Affable with junior officers he is extremely popular in the service. More important for the present war, there is probably no Japanese flag officer who knows more about China...
...Tenno is correct, in that classical writings and historians refer to that date. But in their everyday life, the Japanese reckon time from the date of the enthronement of the Emperor who is on the throne at the time. Thus the World War began in the Third Year of Taisho (the present Emperor's father: 1912-26), and this letter would be dated 7-2-19, as being written in the seventh year of Showa (Righteousness, the title chosen by Emperor Hirohito for his reign), on the 19th day of the second month...
...represents only the capitalization of the South Manchuria Railway Company; Japan's total investment in Manchuria, including the additional enterprises specified in the sentence quoted, amounts to nearly two billion yen. On the third page, Prince Yamagata is stated to have participated in a conference called by Emperor Taisho after the signing of the Nine-Power Treaty a,t the Washington Conference. The Nine-Power Treaty was signed Feb. 6, 1922. Prince Yamagata, however, had been seriously ill since the preceding October and had died on Feb. i, 1922. Moreover, at this period Emperor Taisho had been an invalid...
...Full Admiral, '04; Chief of Naval Staff. '05; Supreme War Councillor, '09; Admiral of Fleet in 'i 2. Attended King George's Cor- onation on the suite of Prince Higashi-Fushimi; was at a time Lord Tutor to the Crown Prince (Emperor Taisho). Address: Koj. Kamirokuban-cho, Tokyo...