Word: wakasugi
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...countries other than Japan. In one case, Mitsui shipped U.S. machinery to Brazil, which in turn sent coffee to Sweden, which for its part exported glassware to the U.S. Because Japanese trading companies are so well suited for such complicated transactions, the president of Mitsui, U.S.A., Sueyuki Wakasugi, predicts that they may well become "a working tool of America's international marketing...
Died. Kaname Wakasugi, 60, Japan's Commissioner General for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair; of a gall-bladder ailment; somewhere in Japan...
...Large numbers of Japanese civilians left China, the Philippines, Australia, Singapore. In Indo-China, where there are reported to be up to 100,000 Japanese troops, bubonic plague had broken out. Large Japanese troop concentrations were being made on Manchukuo's Russian border. Japanese Minister to Washington Kaname Wakasugi had telephoned an interview from Los Angeles to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi, explaining to his countrymen that the U.S. meant business, warned them to be mighty careful...
Statesman Briand waited fuming in the hall, and Statesman Wakatsuki, who had been expecting him, stamped about impatiently in his office for 30 minutes. It was then discovered that the doorman had understood M. Briand to ask for one Wakasugi, a Japanese underling who does pronounce the "u" in this name...
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