Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Curls of scented smoke arose last week before a brand new bronze statue in the Kuonji temple gardens of Yamanashi Prefecture, 70 mi. from Tokyo. Musical instrument dealers bought bowls of sacred rice, hoped business would be better. Foreigners inspected the statue with interest. They saw a heroic bronze figure in the robes of a Buddhist priest but with the head of a large shaggy dog. In his lap rested a Buddhist nun with the head of a cat. Balanced precariously on top of the dog-headed priest was a little figure of Buddha, blessing the pair...
Reporters interviewed a leading samisen manufacturer of Tokyo, found him smiling toothily behind gold-rimmed spectacles, willing to admit that he was the prime mover for the erection of the dog & cat placater...
...This neglect has affected our families and business in the past, as it is a well-known fact that no family of samisen manufacturers lasts more than three generations. At present the largest dealer in Tokyo has been in existence for more than three generations but the head of the family has always been an adopted child...
Eager women in all parts of the Empire heard the call but only from the Kanto district of Southern Japan did candidates set out promptly for Tokyo, since Imperial wet nurses, by tradition, must be Kanto women. Physicians attached to the Imperial Household Ministry began a thoroughgoing medical examination of hundreds of applicants which will continue for at least a month. Conscientious internes cranked and cranked at whirring centrifugal milk-testing machines. Zealous investigators checked the social status of each applicant lest some highborn peeress or ambitious bourgeoise sneak in. For by immemorial custom the two wet nurses assigned...
...lofty New York Times, not a client of United Press, was apparently guilty of caginess and poor sportsmanship. Two days late it printed a story from its Tokyo correspondent stating that the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun (U. P. client) was carrying an interview with Stalin. It then repeated the gist of the interview which was, of course, United Pressman Lyons'. A few days later Times Correspondent Duranty got his interview with Stalin. Certainly by that time the Times was well aware of the U. P. "heat." Yet the Duranty story referred only to "Japanese correspondents" as recent interviewers...