Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marine, speaking before 1,000 notables gathered to watch the launching of the 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...
...descent from Jimmu. It now appears that the Emperor Chokei (1368-1372 A. D.) was a real person, and not mythological as was previously supposed. He was inserted in the official records last week as the 98th Emperor of Japan. Thereupon, with impressive phraseology it was announced at Tokyo that the present Emperor is not the 122nd but the 123rd sublime ruler of Japan...
...with approval last week as the great Viscount Shibusawa, "the Morgan of Japan," founder of the Dai-ichi Ginko (First National Bank) of Japan, organizer of the world spanning Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Mail Line), financier, industrialist, philanthropist, first "businessman" ever to be created a Japanese peer, announced at Tokyo that he will unveil the Harris Monument in the presence of U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh...
Died. Eki Hioki, 64, onetime (1920) Japanese Ambassador to Germany; earlier Secretary to the Embassy at Washington; enthusiastic friend of the U. S.; at Tokyo, of stomach ulcer and kidney disease...
...Tokyo, one Giichi Kitazawa, confectioner, sat brooding; glowered across the table at his sweetheart. Disappointed in love, he swallowed large quantities of eggs, curry, rice; drank heartily of sake-whisky; fell unconscious, died...