Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year-and they were not little yellowfolk but big, brown, burly. The Imperial Japanese Government knows the reason-is the reason-why strapping Japanese exclusively are entering Brazil in a slow but sure procession. "It is considered," reads a suave semi-official bulletin from the Home Office at Tokyo, "that great injustice would be done to nations requiring Japanese laborers if permits to emigrate were issued to palefaced [Japanese] town residents incapable of handling anything heavier than pens and pencils. . . . The authorities are very strict in granting permits only to those who can stand the comparatively hard labor involved...
Died. Fleet Admiral Viscount Ryokei Inouye, 84, veteran Japanese naval officer, onetime guest student at the U.S. Naval Academy (class of 1881); of liver disease; in Tokyo...
Last week in Berlin-the distinguished Yuichi Iwase, Accoucheur in Ordinary to the Japanese Empress, was commanded by cable to return to Japan and at once booked a ticket for Tokyo, where he is Professor of Obstetrics at the Imperial University...
...peninsula which is fenced off from the rest of China by an expeditionary force of Japanese marines. These tough sliteyes have been where they are a long time, and, as in Nicaragua, "the purpose of the Marines is to protect lives and property," according to the Imperial Government at Tokyo. During the week only one small body of 7,000 Nationalist troops were able to maneuver around the Japanese within striking distance of Chang & mercenaries...
Handicapped by lack of reach and dapperling hands, Matsuyama came by his skill psychologically. He learned the game in Japan, where its finicky precision is enormously popular among a precise people. In Tokyo, before the last earthquake, there were 321 billiard halls full of grave little yellow men studying the motions of two white balls...