Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons popularly given for the fall of the Tanaka government-lèse-majesté and the Manchurian murder of Chang Tso-lin-Tokyo businessmen added a third last week. Baron Tanaka's "Positive Policy" of intervention, vigorous protection of the Japanese colony in Tsinanfu, had brought a boycott of Japanese goods throughout China. By the most rudimentary bookkeeping, balancing the $250,000,000 colony of Tsinanfu against $500,000,000 annual trade with China, Tokyo businessmen realized that the "Positive Policy" must...
...with the War Department at Washington. But Japan's Defense Day served to remind U. S. citizens in Hawaii, last week occupied with the inauguration of a new Governor (see p. 11), of the strategic importance of their position. More peaceful was last week's news from Tokyo when His Majesty the Emperor Hirohito ratified the Kellogg Treaty for the Renunciation of War (see below...
...Another task equally pleasant for the Engineer-President was his appointment of 17 delegates, famed engineers all, to represent the U. S. at the World Engineering Congress at Tokyo next October...
...time a photograph of the festive scene appeared in Tokyo's English news paper, The Trans-Pacific. Read the caption: "Life in the Central Police Station always assumes a jolly air following any outstanding piece of robber-nabbing...
...liberal were U. S. citizens at the time of Japan's great earthquake of 1923, so frugal were Japanese administrators of the relief fund, that last week a great modern hospital was inaugurated in Tokyo-built and permanently endowed entirely from surplus monies of the American relief fund...