Word: mitsui
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bank. The same arrangement appealed to cautious, bespectacled Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who, by advice of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, prefers like President Hoover to keep-the-government-out-of-business. Japan's "Messrs. X" will be a consortium of 14 banks, led by the Bank of Japan, the Mitsui Bank and the Yokohama Specie Bank...
Field, Glore Mitsui Bank...
...Japan, a bomb was set. Two newspapers of good standing-the Chugai Shogyo (controlled by Mitsui interests) and the Tokyo Kohumin-commented. Said the first: "[Increased] fortification of Hawaii may justly be taken as an indication of the Americans' ill will toward Japan." Said the second: "Our nationals now realize that the disarmament conference at Washington was a secret plot between the two groups of the Anglo-Saxons to weaken the fighting strength of the Japanese Navy. Hawaii would afford a splendid base for American naval operations, as Singapore would for the English...
...Means asserted: 1) that he had received for Jesse Smith $100,000 in cash from a representative of Mitsui Co., Japanese bankers, in connection with a War contract case with the Standard Aircraft Corporation; 2) that he had received, also on Smith's behalf, various sums from the Dempsey-Carpentier fight film affair; 3) that he had tried "to get something" on Senators; La Follette and Caraway; 4) that President Harding had ordered that he investigate Secretary Mellon in regard to liquor withdrawal frauds?"the President wanted that information in regard to him: to catch him, and we caught...
...Japanese tennis-he who very nearly overcame the remarkable Tilden in 1921. Masanosuke Fukuda, also of the 1923 team and known in this country. Sanao Okamoto. He is graduate of the University of Commerce (Tokyo) and for more than five years has been in India as representative of Mitsui & Co. There he has won the Bengal championship three times, the West Indian championship once. Among his victims was Louis Dean of the India Davis Cup team. He is 26, "fast as lightning and with the sinews of a Bengal tiger." Takio Harada. Last year he won the Japanese singles championship...