2021年

Social

Thursday, June 23 1921: Hariharnath Toral Atal memorial service.

1921 (Taisho 10) Thursday, June 23 A memorial service for Indian lecturer Hariharnath Toral Atal at Tokyo School of Foreign Languages will be held at Tokyo Imperial University. On June 14, around 2 PM, Atal was in agony after taking a powerful drug in an 8-mat room on the second floor of his house. The maid found him in agony and immediately gave him medical treatment, but his death was confirmed at 4 PM. Atal came to Japan 5 years ago, in 1916, from Varanasi city of United Province in India, now called Uttar Pradesh, which was then part of the British territory. He has always complained about British rule...
Politics

Wednesday, June 22 1921: the 3rd Comintern World Championship was held in Moscow.

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...
Politics

Monday, June 20 1921: Crown Prince Hirohito toured the LONCIN battery in the city of Liege.

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,...
Politics

Saturday, June 18 1921: Naohiro Nabeshima, former lord of the Hizen Saga Domain, died.

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...
Academic

Friday, June 17 1921: The first Japanese candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, Nagao ARIGA died.

On Friday, June 17, 1921 (Taisho 10), Nagao ARIGA, a famous jurist, died at the age of 60. Ariga was born in 1860 to a family of poets in Osaka and graduated from the department of literature 15 at Tokyo Imperial University in 1882. Later, he went to Europe to study under Stein of the University of Vienna in Austria, and became an expert on international law of war. In 1913, he became a legal advisor to Yuan Shikai, the Provisional President of the Republic of China, and defended the Imperial Movement. As he opposed the 21 Demands to China that Japan submitted, he was in fierce conflict with Takaaki...
Birthday

Thursday, June 16 1921: OSAKO Masatomi, the founder of Zenrin, was born.

Thursday, June 16 1921 (Taisho 10): OSAKO Masatomi, the founder of Zenrin Co., Ltd., which is famous for its housing map, was born in Usa City, Oita Prefecture. After the war, Osako was demobilized from Manchuria and established the Huako Tourism Association in 1949 (Showa 24), which published a pamphlet for tourists titled “Nenkan Beppu”. The city map at the end of the book was well received. The following year, the company changed its name to Zenrin Publishing Co., Ltd., and began full-scale production of housing maps. The name Zenrin means to make friends with neighboring countries. Detailed maps are also military information, so if the world is not peaceful,...
Politics

Wednesday, June 15 1921: Sojiro Kojima appointed to the vice-General Directorate of Education.

1921 (Taisho 10) Wednesday, June 15 There was a personnel reshuffle of Army cadres. The other day, on June 9, Minister of Army Giichi Tanaka resigned, and Hanzo Yamanashi, who had served as Vice-Minister of Army under Tanaka, was promoted to the succeeding Minister of Army. It was Tanaka’s strong wish that Yamanashi became Minister of War. Minobu Omi, who was the head of the educational affairs office, was transferred to replace Yamanashi as vice minister. The post of Director General of the Office of Education is the second most important post in the Army to assist the Important Post-Office of Education, one of the three deputies of the Army....
Politics

Tuesday, June 14 1921: Wang Cai-yu, Chiang Kai-shek’s mother, passed away.

1921 (Taisho 10) On Tuesday, June 14, Wang Caiyu, Chiang Kai-shek’s mother, passed away. He was 59 years old. Wang Caiyu was born in 1864 as the oldest daughter of businessman and landowner Wang Youze. I am currently from Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province. At the age of 20, she married Chiang Chao-tsung, a salt manufacturer who was 44 years old at the time, and Chiang Kai-shek, her eldest son, was born. After her husband Chiang Chao-tsung died in 1895, she brought up her children while running the family salt industry. 100 years ago at that time, Chiang Kai-shek, a 33 year-old leader of the Guangdong government, held a big funeral for...
Social

Monday, June 13 1921: Babe Ruth of the Yankees defeated the Tigers with the performance of winning pitcher, home run, and outfield defense.

1921 (Taisho 10) Monday, June 13 Babe Ruth of the Yankees defeated the Tigers with the performance of winning pitcher, home run, and outfield defense. The three-sword record will be recreated 98 years later, on September 4, 2019, by Cincinnati Reds pitcher Michael Lorenzen in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies. In addition, 100 years later, the re-enactment of the record set by Babe Ruth on the same day as “the starting pitching of the most homerun player” will be the game between Otani Shohei and the Rangers on April 26 this year. Two months have passed since the opening of the Major League this year, and one month is...
Birthday

Sunday, June 12 1921: Mary Agnes Ruggieri was born.

1921 (Taisho 10) Sunday, June 12, Mary Agnes Ruggieri was born in San Francisco. Her name before marriage was Mary Kiddie. After completing a degree in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1943, she continued on to pursue graduate studies in child welfare at the University of Minnesota. During the Pacific War, she volunteered to join the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in 1944. During World War II, about 150,000 American women worked for WAC and Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. These were the first women in American history to serve in the Army, with the exception of nurses. Mary arrived in Yokohama in October 1946. She lived in the...