Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goto, "Roosevelt of Japan" and present Minister of Home Affairs, resigned when he heard the news, but was subsequently persuaded by Premier Count Yamamoto to remain in office. Dr. Beard, foreseeing the drastic cuts, left Tokyo in despair a week previously. The press expressed keen disappointment, but the Tokyoans were reported to be interested only in "the earliest possible resumption of former activities...
Thus, apparently, Tokyo is to rise once more as it was-a fire-exposed city with haphazard streets and multitudinous ramshackle buildings...
...great musicians who have gone to Japan from Europe and America have gone under the auspices of the Prince. He it was who organized Japan's first symphony concert. He has given and sponsored free public concerts, has caused concerts to be broadcasted from the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo. Altogether, the advancement of music in Japan in recent years is ascribed largely to his enthusiasm...
...Prince had planned a great musical festival for next Spring, one that was to become an annual event. When the earthquake was rocking Tokyo, the Prince was on an express train thither-bound. But it was 19 days before he arrived to find the Imperial Theatre in ruins and his own concert hall partly demolished. Nevertheless, the Prince does not despair of his festival and is at present endeavoring to engage American artists...
Divorced. Mme. Takani Miura, Japanese prima donna, from Dr. Masataro Miura, vitamine expert, professor in Tokyo University, in Tokyo...