Word: yasuda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura, firms that control 62% of the total wealth of Japan (Mr. Gunther calls them "Men of Yen") ; Emperor Kang Teh (formerly Henry Pu-yi) of Manchukuo, "least consequential monarch on earth...
...much ot the national wealth concentrated in so few hands. Japanese know that control of virtually all banking, Japanese foreign trade & shipping, domestic industry, insurance and even Japanese department stores is closely held by five so-called "Merchant Empires" owned by the Japanese families of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura. These families have continued to wax rich during a decade of deepening Japanese depression. Every Japanese knows that their wealth has fostered corruption of both leading political parties, the Seiyukai and Minseito...
...jammed against a post. Next day, his broken wrist in a cast, Horton Smith saw Burke go two extra holes to beat Tomekichi Miyamoto, Japanese champion in 1929 and 1930, who had come over for the winter season with two other crack Japanese pros, Rakuzo Asami and Kokichi Yasuda...