2021年

Economy

Friday, April 8, 1921: Tokuo Watanabe and Eichi Shibusawa

On Friday, April 8, 1921, Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper reported on Tokuo Watanabe, who runs Eichi Shibusawa’s private company (Shibuya Family Company). Watanabe is a dormitory for students from Saitama, established by Shibusawa, as an early student to make them into friends. After working for Daiichi Bank managed by Shibusawa for more than 10 years, he became a manager. Later, he became a steward and a senior managing director of the Shibusawa family. Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper 1921.4.8 Morning edition “Tokuo WATANABE, who was the manager of Daiichi Bank, recently became the senior managing director of Shibusawa Dozoku Company and went to Shibusawa office in Kabutocho every day to supervise the business...
Birthday

Friday, April 8, 1921: Imafuku Masao is born

On Friday, April 8, 1921, actor Imafuku Masao is born in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture. In 1940, after graduating from Fukuoka Prefectural (Kaho) Kaho Junior High School under the old system and the present Fukuoka Prefectural Kaho Senior High School, he became an engineer for Kyushu Airplane. Just after the war, he was asked by someone he happened to know in the black market to help with the sound effects of radio dramas, and he joined NHK Fukuoka Broadcasting Company Limited. After appearing in radio and television dramas in her hometown, he moved to Tokyo in 1966 and joined the Theater Research Institute attached to the Bungakuza Theater Company in Shinanomachi....
Social

Thursday, April 7, 1921: A lecture by Shigeo YAMAUCHI

Thursday, April 7, 1921: A lecture, “To get a good child,” by Shigeo YAMAUCHI (45), a biologist and a professor of Tokyo Higher Normal School, was published in the Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper. The number of births decreases with the evolution of civilization. The gene of the excellent distant ancestor is transmitted to the human, and the acquired element or rearing environment is more important than the appearance and ability of the direct parent. The opinion of Shigeo YAMAUCHI is different from ethnic eugenics, eugenics thought, genetic eugenics (“divine country” philosophy) which prevail in the Showa period, and importance is attached to acquired rearing environment regardless of birth. “The reality of...
Social

Wednesday, April 6, 1921: Asakusa on fire

A fire broke out in Asakusa on Wednesday, April 6, 1921. The house of actor Tomiemon NAKAMURA in Tamachi 1-chome was the origin of the fire. The housekeeper went out to prepare breakfast and caught fire. Tokyo City Fuji Jinjo Elementary School (The present Fuji Elementary School, Taito Ward), a new school building completed four years ago, burned down. All the temples in Kisakata-cho went up in flames. The fire was extinguished in six hours. The number of victims rose to 6,500.
Politics

Wednesday, April 6, 1921: Lightening the signing burden of Emperor Taisho.

Wednesday, April 6, 1921: The Privy Council decided to lighten the burden of Emperor Taisho signing the medal for merit in his own hand. Previously, the title had been written by the third or higher rank calligrapher, but it was changed to the second or higher rank. A medal for merit is a certificate which is given to a recipient of a decoration and sealed with the seal of state, and the emperor himself signs the higher rank. The work load to the emperor increased recently with the increase of the persons with merit, and the Ministry of the Imperial Household regarded it as a problem. He attended the meeting...
Birthday

Wednesday, April 6, 1921: Kurataro Takamura was born.

Kurataro Takamura, the cinematographer who supported the golden age of Nikkatsu, was born on Wednesday, April 6, 1921. 140 films were shot, including “I’m Waiting” by Nikkatsu in 1957, “Bakumatsu Taiyouden” by Nikkatsu in 1957, “Mukumatsu Taiyouden” by Nikkatsu in 1959, “Migratory Bird with Guitar” by Nikkatsu in 1959, “One Million People in Chorus” by Toho in 1972, and “Ippai no Kakesoba” by Toei in 1992. He has shot about 140 films, including “The End of the Edo Period” (1959), “The Migratory Bird with a Guitar” (1972), “A Million People in Chorus” (1972), and “Ippai Kakesoba” (1992). He died in 2005 at the age of 84.
Politics

Tuesday, April 5, 1921: rime Minister Hara Takashi held a party with newspaper reporters

Tuesday, April 5, 1921 Prime Minister Hara Takashi held an amusement party with newspaper reporters at his official residence. This was an unprecedented event by Hara, who attaches great importance to the relationship with journalism, which influences public opinion. The event was reported favorably by the newspapers. The event was unprecedented in the history of the Cabinet, and was reported favorably by the newspapers. “I invited more than 400 journalists, mainly from newspapers related to the Diet, and held a party at the Prime Minister’s residence. Hara Takashi is often referred to as a commoner Prime Minister, a conservative politician who promoted the construction of railroads and roads across the...
Birthday

Tuesday, April 5, 1921: Cultural Revolution leader Niè Yuánzǐ was born

Born Niè Yuánzǐ on Tuesday, April 5, 1921, in Henan Province, China, he was inspired by the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to join the Chinese Communist Party in 1938 at the age of 17. After graduating from the National Normal School in Taiyuan, he received military training from the Anti-Japanese Salvation Organization, the Sacrifice and Salvation League. 1939 found him in Yan’an, the headquarters of the CCP, but he went on to Peking University, where he graduated with a degree in philosophy and became a lecturer there. On May 16, 1966, when the Cultural Revolution became public knowledge through the “Five Eleventh Sixth Notice” at the enlarged...
Art

Monday, April 4, 1921: Painter,Takashi Tanaka was born

Takashi Tanaka, a Western-style painter, was born on Monday, April 4, 1921, in Wada Village, Mitoyo County, Kagawa Prefecture. In 1939, he entered the Oil Painting Department of Tokyo Fine Arts School, but transferred to the Art Department of Nihon University on the recommendation of Western-style painter Ebihara Kinosuke. After the war, in 1957, he became the first recipient of the Yasui Award, the Akutagawa Award of the art world, for his painting “Seaside. He died in 2014 at the age of 93, leaving behind many works. Takashi Tanaka was born in Wada Village, Mitoyo County, Kagawa Prefecture, which is now Toyohama-cho, Kanonji City, and is also the birthplace of...
Social

unday, April 3, 1921: Prostitution in Japan

On Sunday, April 3, 1921, Naoki Sugita, M.D. contributed to the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun regarding the issue of prostitution. He demanded a ban on human trafficking and other human rights violations. He also calls for the graceful and elegant qualities of women and the cultivation of their artistic and personal qualities, as was once the case in the heyday of the Yoshiwara brothel. In the Taisho era, people’s awareness of human rights increased, and women’s political movements became more active. In the Taisho era, the awareness of human rights among the people increased and women’s political movements became more active, including the abolition of Naniwa brothel in Osaka, opposition to...