Word: tokugawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufn, 1600-1843 by Conrad D. Totman...
Matsushita's business career began in a Japan that was still shaking off the effects of two centuries of political, economic and international hibernation under the autocratic Tokugawa shoguns. To preserve their nation's independence, the new rulers of Japan-an uneasy coalition of military leaders descended from the old samurai and the great financial clans known as zaibatsu-concentrated on building Japan's industrial and military power at forced draft. The policy was in part highly successful-until World War II, Japan was the only Asian nation that had never been colonized or dominated...
...Dayton's Air Force Museum, the nation's first military pilot, retired Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, 80, took a nostalgic look at the 1909 Wright Flyer, then climbed aboard the open-air, pusher-propellered crate. With him was an old colleague, retired Lieut. General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, 83, who in 1910 made the first powered-aircraft flight in Japan, where he is renowned as "the grandfather of flight." "This is my ship," said Benny Foulois proudly, perhaps recalling a memorable day-March 2, 1910-when, as an Army lieutenant, he made his first take off, first solo, first...