1921 (Taisho 10) Thursday, June 30 Around this time, Li Shucheng, who lived in Shanghai, received a request to lend his residence for the first Communist Party Congress. It was from Li Hanjun, the younger brother of Li Shucheng, whom I met in the Communist Party. His brother Li Shucheng is a revolutionary soldier and an old friend of Sun Wen. Li Shucheng had studied in Japan before going to Tokyo to study at the Kobun Gakuin founded by Jigoro Kano. This school is in Ushigome Nishigoken-cho. He studied with Lu Xun and Hwang Heung. He met Sun Yat-sen in Tokyo and became one of the founders of the 1904...

On Thursday, June 30, 1921, Kazuko Sasada, a vocalist, was born in Osaka. In 1942 (Showa 17), he graduated from Tokyo Music School (now Tokyo University of the Arts) and joined the Fujiwara Revue at the same time. In the first year of her career, from November 23 to 26 in 1942, she played the heroine, Elsa von Brabant, at the Tokyo Kabuki-za Theater in Japan’s premiere of Wagner-composed opera Lohengrin. This was the 16 th performance of the Fujiwara Opera, and FUJIWARA no Yoshie, the founder of the Fujiwara Opera, not to mention the main tenor, and the Arthurian legend of the Swan Knight, Lauengrin. Manfred Gurlitt conducted the...

On Wednesday, June 29, 1921 (Taisho 10), Maring, the representative of Comintern in China, arrived in Shanghai. He started preparing for the first Chinese Communist Party Congress. Maring’s real name is Hendricus Josephus Franciscus Marie Sneevliet. He was a Dutch socialist. The Chinese Communist Party at the time will hold the meeting on July 23 with two leaders (Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao) absent. Although it is different from the historical fact, the Chinese Communist Party officially set July 1 as the anniversary of the party’s establishment. According to the latest research results, the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party was in fact in November 1920, just before Chen left...

1921 (Taisho 10) Tuesday, June 28 Utako Shimoda, president of the Patriotic Women’s Association and a person with connections to the Imperial Family, visited Prime Minister Takashi Hara. Her mother, Empress Teimei, who had opposed Crown Prince Hirohito’s visit to Europe, is now very pleased to see the success of the visit. Hara gained the trust of Empress Teimei as well as Genro (elder statesman) Aritomo YAMAGATA during this period. Emperor Taisho was sick in those days. Instead of her husband, she was at the center of the Imperial family. The following is the content of Takashi Hara’s diary on this day. Utako SHIMODA came. We talked about the situation...

1921 (Taisho 10) On Wednesday, June 22, the 3rd Comintern World Championship was held in Moscow. It’s for 22 days until July 12. Comintern is an international organization with the Communist Party of Russia led by Lenin and other Communist parties around the world as their branches. A total of 605 people from 103 political parties from more than 50 countries participated in this third convention. Taro YOSHIHARA and Unzo TAGUCHI joined from Japan. Taro Yoshihara is an American immigrant communist who participated in the second time last time. Unzo Taguchi, from Shiunji Village, Kitakambara-gun, Niigata Prefecture, became an assistant to Sen Katayama in New York after wandering around the...

1921 (Taisho 10) Monday, June 20 Crown Prince Hirohito, on a trip to Europe, toured the LONCIN battery in the city of Liege, a famous World War I battlefield in Belgium. Liege became an important battlefield in the beginning of World War I. On August 3, 1914, Germany declared war on France. According to the “Schlieffen Plan” that had been prepared for a long time, France bypassed the Franco-German border defended by fortresses and began to invade northern Belgium. On August 5, two days after the start of the war, the German army arrived in Liège, Belgium. The original Schlieffen Plan did not anticipate much resistance from fragile Belgian forces,...

1921 (Taisho 10) Naohiro Nabeshima, former lord of the Hizen Saga Domain, died on Saturday, June 18. He was 74 years old. The funeral was held not in Buddhist style but in Shinto style. He was buried in the Aoyama Cemetery, not in Kensu-ji Temple, a family temple of the Nabeshima family in the Saga Domain of Hizen Province. The chief mourner is Naomitsu NABESHIMA, Naohiro’s legitimate son. He was 48 years old at the time. When Naomitsu NABESHIMA became the 12th family head of the Nabeshima Domain, he succeeded the title of marquis and became a member of the House of Peers. The person in charge of the funeral...