1921 (Taisho 10) Thursday, July 7 The Imperial Household Ministry released a remarkable statement regarding Crown Prince Hirohito. It was reported that Prince Hirohito was very popular during his visit to Europe and went shopping in London and Paris, but the Ministry of the Imperial Household reported that Prince Hirohito plans to treat the people in a similar free style after returning to Japan. It was Hirokuni Ito, the deputy director of Shikibu of Viscount who was the heir of Hirobumi Ito. According to Ito, it’s better to wear a suit and go shopping in Ginza by train. At the time, it was customary for the Japanese Imperial Family, including...

1921 (Taisho 10) Sunday, July 3 The first meeting of the Discipline Enforcement Committee was held in Shibaura reclaimed land by the opposition Kenseikai Party and the Kuomintang outsiders. In the morning, the event was threatened by heavy rain, but it cleared up around 10 o’clock and the event started at 13 o’clock. Masayoshi Oshikawa, Kanichi Otake, Monpei Yuasabonpei, and other active members of the opposition House of Representatives took the stage and criticized the government. According to the report, 10,000 people gathered on Shibaura reclaimed land. On the other hand, at around 15:30, there was an incident in which several extramural members of the ruling Seiyukai Party distributed hundreds...

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...