Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While some of the Japanese in Tokyo cheered the Prince Regent and his bride as they drove through the streets on the day set aside for the public celebration of their recent marriage, while others filled the air with imprecations against the U. S., many thousands of Japanese found their way to the Tokyo railway station to cheer the Ambassador from the U. S.-Cyrus E. Woods...
...dance at the Imperial Hotel, in Tokyo, attended by Americans and other foreigners, was broken up by ronin. Numbers of bitter and insulting anti-American speeches were made and dances with naked swords were performed. Two American women fainted...
...Tokyo, 25,000 people assembled to hear fiery speeches and concoct "hate" resolutions. The following resolutions were approved by Kokumin Taibeikai, an organization devoted to fostering anti-American sentiment...
Baron Matsui, Japanese Foreign Minister, announced that "smiling" Hani-hara, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., would return to Tokyo to explain to the Government the situation caused by President Coolidge's signing of the Johnson Immigration Bill (TIME, June 2, IMMIGRATION). Although the Foreign Minister stated that the Ambassador was not being recalled, informed circles thought his resignation was merely a question of time...
Outside the old site of the American Embassy in Tokyo, an unidentified male, about the age of 40, committed hara-kiri (suicide by disemboweling). With a small dagger he slit his abdomen crosswise and then upward "in the classical way" and slashed his neck. Two letters were found by his corpse, one to "The People of the Japanese Empire," which was not published, but was understood to call upon the nation to rise and avenge the insult of the U. S. Immigration Act; one to "The American Ambassador and the American People...