Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combined committee of the Tokyo "Klan" (IronHearted Brethren, Black Dragons and the Death Penalty Club) were "aroused" when they heard that the Daito Electric Co. (Tokyo) was planning to float a loan...
Certain interests in the U. S. objected (through the U. S. Embassy at Tokyo) to the new Japanese 100% levy on foreign "luxury" imports (TIME, July 28). The Japanese Government suavely informed the U. S. Embassy that exception would be made for goods in transit before July 5, if application were made before the forthcoming promulgation (official announcement) of the new law. This answer met the only legitimate objection to the measure, but it is certain that U. S. trade in the Orient, very largely in 'luxuries" such as flivvers, will be hard hit by the measure...
...Tokyo, masses assembled to give ear to anti-American ardor. One of the largest meetings was held at the sacred Meiji shrine (religious symbol of modern Japan erected in memory of the present era which began in 1867, when the terrible Shoguns who had for years been de facto sovereigns of Japan were ousted). "Hate" societies plastered the city with placards which read...
...that upon which the U. S. Immigration Act went into force. In the U. S. Embassy Compound in Tokyo, the Stars and Stripes flew proudly from a tall mast. A Japanese, watched by an unsuspecting Tokyo "bobbie," hauled the flag down, cut it from the halyards with a razor, crumpled it up, fled. The "bobbie" suddenly came to, realized the gravity of the man's action, made off after him -but in vain; his quarry escaped...
Died. Prince Massayoshi Matsukata, 89, famed "Elder Statesman" of Japan; at Tokyo. Prince Saionji is, then, the sole surviving Elder Statesman...