Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Confirmed the nomination of Edgar A . Bancroft (already serving at Tokyo) to be Ambassador to Japan...
...Passed a bill appropriating $1,250,000 for a new embassy and consulate to house U. S. representatives in Tokyo. (Went to Senate...
Prof. Takayanagi of Tokyo University,* in the U. S. to solicit funds for his alma mater, knocked not in vain at the door of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He had asked for financial aid on behalf of his university library, which was partially destroyed by the great Earthquake of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.), and in which 800,000 books were destroyed...
...Tokyo University (Tokyo Teikoky Daigaku)-the main centre of culture in Japan -occupies 310 acres of ground in and near the City of Tokyo. The buildings alone, before the earthquake, occupied nearly 35 acres of land. There are seven faculties: Letters, Law, Science, Medicine, Engineering, Economics, Agriculture. In a recent report, there were nearly 25,000 alumni and over 6,000 students...
Into the American Embassy at Tokyo walked a young Japanese of pleasant appearance. He explained that he was Bunkai Arikawa, aged 22, the son of a priest in the Prefecture of Gifu. He asked to see Ambassador Bancroft...