Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent dispatch from Tokyo brings the news of the death of Baron Sumitoino, one of the most influential of Japanese bankers. Last year Baron Sumitomo, who was much interested in the development of Oriental studies at Harvard, and particularly in the Oriental Department to be opened in the new Fogg Museum, sent the University one of the few remaining copies of his invaluable catalogue of ancient Chinese bronzes...
...Empress of Asia, received a bulky package from an anxious Canadian messenger and bore it reverently to a special ice box. Inquisitive passengers who insisted on visiting the ship's kitchens were allowed a peek at the package as a special favor. Across it sprawled an address: "For the Tokyo Angling and Country Club, Tokyo, Japan...
...Tokyo the members of the Tokyo Angling and Country Club* awaited the package with decorous impatience. A few of them went out and walked about among the numerous diminutive streams and lakes owned by the club. They talked excitedly. They speculated on whether the 5,000 Eastern Canadian trout eggs which they had ordered from Vancouver would hatch out into sportive speckled game for Japanese fishermen...
Scarcely a college in the land but has its little son of Nippon, its quiet Chinaman, its bird-eyed Siamese or swarthy, ruminative Hindu. Scholarships bring to the U. S. hundreds of the best young brains of the Orient. But there have been no Iowa farmboys studying in Tokyo, no Boston freshman at Peking or Madras. The self-sufficient Occident has always assumed the teacher's role in its colleges at home, in its Christian missions abroad. Yet lately there have come missionaries to the Christians from the followers of Buddha, Confucius and Krishna. And last week another reciprocity...
Died. Viscount Takaaki Kato, Premier of Japan; at Tokyo, following an attack of influenza...