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Baron Goh's Tokyo Electric is not only the biggest concern in the field but also the biggest corporation in Japan. The great banking house of Mitsui has tremendous holdings in it. Serving the rich industrial area around Tokyo and Yokohama, it produces nearly as much power as New York Edison Co., more than Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Tokyo Electric probably has more customers than any strictly power & light company in the world...
...Japan came to the fore in silk. After the Japanese earthquake in 1923, Japanese silk deliveries were stopped for two months. But Gerli & Co. arranged to ship silk from Kobe almost immediately and this was the real opening of a silk market outside of Yokohama. Emanuel Gerli is 73. Active spokesman for the firm in his nephew, Paolino Gerli, 41, a vice president. He came to the U. S. from Italy in 1905, later went to Japan where he dealt in silk for his own account from 1919 to 1921. In 1922 he joined E. Gerli & Co. Although the firm...
Eleven other men besides the priest were arrested. They confessed (said the police) that their "Death Band," in addition to its actual killings, had planned to assassinate: Board Chairman Kushida of Mitsubishi Bank, managing director Ikeda of Mitsui Bank; President Kodama of Yokohama Specie Bank; Baron Go, president of Tokyo Electric Light Co. and former Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki. Only a Japanese knows the full magnitude of these names, equivalent in Japan to such names in the U. S. as Wiggin, Insull, Coolidge...
Sirs: In reference to your "Queer Drugs" on p. 24 of July 6 issue in regard to a Japanese Silky fowl. This bird has a normal tail, and is not to be confused with the Yokohama or Phoenix chicken of which there is a specimen in the Tokyo museum with a tail covert length...
...national sport of wrestling. Nowadays Japanese newspapers must report the world's series from the U. S. play by play. Last week a syndicate, backed by Japanese tycoons and resident foreigners, announced plans to form the first Japanese professional league, with two teams in Tokyo, one each in Yokohama, Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka...