1921 (Taisho 10) Thursday, April 21 It is reported that the health of Aritomo Yamagata is better than in recent years, he drinks wine with his own hands and has a good appetite. “From the ordinary to the clear mind is more clear.” he said. However, Yamagata, who was devastated by the certain serious incident of the Imperial Court, confined himself at Kokian in Odawara and gave up his annual visit to Murinan in Kyoto. He fell ill from autumn of the same year and died on February 1 of the following year. According to the latest research by Dr. Yukio Ito, Yamagata, who is at the top of the...

1921 (Taisho 10) Thursday, April 21 Japan’s first women’s socialist organization “Sekirankai (Red Wave)” was established. “We are resolute in declaring war against all our oppression, our lack, our ignorance and our slavery.” he declared. The foundation was established with Kikuei Yamakawa (30) and Noe Ito (26) as advisors, and was led by Fusako Kuzumi (30), the wife of anarchists Myo Nakano and Kori, and Shizue Akizuki, who belonged to the May Society; a painter of the proletarian art movement Haruko Hashiura (22) and a younger sister Yasuo Hashiura, who belonged to the Proletarian Art Movement; and Magara Sakai (18), a daughter of socialist Toshihiko Sakai. It made a spectacular...

1921 (Taisho 10) On Wednesday, April 20, Kichinosuke Saigo (11 year-old), the grandson of Takamori Saigo, succeeded the title of Marquis. His father Torataro SAIGO died of the Spanish Flu in 1919 (Taisho 8), and his older brother Takateru SAIGO, who succeeded the peerage, died suddenly the following year, which made his third son Kichinosuke succeed the peerage. After the war, he became a member of the House of Councilors from Kagoshima Prefecture, and became the Minister of Justice in the second Cabinet of Eisaku Sato in 1968 (Showa 43). However in 1971 (Showa 46), the so-called Saigo Incident was discovered, in which Kichinosuke SAIGO issued too many promissory notes...

Tuesday, April 19, 1921: The Ministry of the Imperial Household announced Emperor Taisho’s condition for the third time. The Emperor is still unable to speak. Vice-Minister of the Imperial Household Teizaburo Sekiya frankly announced that he had difficulty in speaking, especially in situations where he was under mental and physical strain, and that he needed assistance to climb and descend stairs. At the same time, it was announced that Emperor Taisho was going to Tamozawa Goyotei in Nikko for summer and rest from early June. According to a report by Kinnosuke Miura, professor of the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, in March 1920 the previous year, since around...