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Friday, August 26 1921: Seibu Railway opened between Yodobashi and Ogikubo.

1921 (Taisho 10) Friday, August 26 Seibu Railway opened between Yodobashi and Ogikubo. Seibu Tramway is a tram owned by Seibu Railway, a private railway company. From Ogikubo station, streetcars will run on Ome Kaido towards Shinjuku. Yodobashi is the upper bridge across Kandagawa River which is located on the border between Shinjuku Ward and Nakano Ward along Oume Kaido Road. Until 1947 (Showa 22), the area where the present Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building is located was an administrative district called “Yodobashi Ward”, and is now also used as an old name for the area around the west exit of Shinjuku Station. For example, the name remains in Yodobashi Camera,...
2021

The general election is likely to be postponed until late November after shocking defeat in Yokohama.

*According to a survey by the Liberal Democratic Party, it is expected to fall below the majority in the House of Representatives election. *Secretary General Nikai retires voluntarily. *Suga will postpone the general election until late November. It was another shocking defeat. The defeat in the mayoral election in Yokohama, where Suga had been a member of the Yokohama City Assembly for a long time and still has many children, was a red light for the administration of Prime Minister Suga. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has been criticized for “no” to the vagueness of the novel coronavirus countermeasures, is worried that “Suga cannot compete in the general election,” but...
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Monday, August 22 1921: Nagoya City annexed 16 towns and villages.

1921 (Taisho 10) Monday, August 22: Nagoya City annexed 16 towns and villages in the vicinity and became a major city. The city area has doubled and is twice the size of Tokyo at that time. The population was 600,000, 1/3 of that of Tokyo. However, five towns and villages of Shimonoisshiki, Kawanaka, Hagino, Shonai and Tenpaku were not merged this time. During World War I, heavy industry developed and urban planning progressed. Nagoya’s city planning is famous for its wide roads. The Taisho period is well known as the period in which railways were developed throughout Japan. According to a thesis “Road Development in Nagoya in the Meiji and...
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Sunday, August 21 1921: The second son of Viscount Otawara was arrested.

1921 (Taisho 10) On Sunday, August 21, it was reported that Junior Lieutenant Shu Otawara (35), the second son of Kazukiyo Otawara (viscount), the last lord of the Otawara Domain in former Tochigi Prefecture (the 14th), was arrested at Ueno Station. Shu was arrested by a plain-clothes detective on alert for the eighth crime he committed in Ueno Station. A scandal about a noble family attracted public attention. Shimotsuke Province is famous as the birthplace of NASU no Yoichi. The Nasu clan had seven powerful vassals called Nasu Shichiki. One of them is Mr. Otawara. In the 16 century, Japan’s Sengoku period, when the Nasu clan joined Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s attack...
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Saturday, August 20 1921: Yanagihara Byakuren published Self Collected Poems.

1921 (Taisho 10) Saturday, August 20 Yanagihara Byakuren published “Byakuren Jissen Kashu” (Collection of Selected Poems by Byakuren), in which she selected her poems. Byakuren’s real name is Akiko. She is the second daughter of Count Sakimitsu Yanagiwara, a venerable court noble. She was born in Tokyo as Yanagihara Akiko on October 15, 1885. Her father named Akiko after the gorgeous appearance of National Dance hall, Rokumeikan. Yanagihara Naruko is one of her aunt. Naruko is mother of Emperor Taisho so Byakuren and Emperor Taisho were cousins. Akiko entered Kazoku Jogakko (now Gakushuin Girls’ Junior High School) at the age of 13, but at the age of 15 she married...
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Thursday, August 18 1921: Kokkatsu actresses and staff members criticized the company.

1921 (Taisho 10) On Thursday, August 18, actresses and staff members of Kokkatsu (Kokusai Katsuei), a film production company, held an unusual speech in which they criticized the company. Kokusai Katsuei was a new film company established 1 and a half years ago in December 1919. It was established by the so-called “bubble gentlemen” who raised money during the boom of World War I and the war boom. The president is Kisaburo KOBAYASHI who used to work at Nikkatsu. With two studios in Sugamo and Tsunohazu, we will be able to mass-produce as many as 120 films in 2 years’ time. However, due to the management turmoil and the economic...
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Wednesday, August 17 1921: Mitsui employee arrested by horse-bandits (Bazoku in Japanese).

1921 (Taisho 10) Wednesday, August 17 There was a news report that Jiro Miyamoto, an employee of the lumber department of Mitsui’s Ji-Ling branch office, was arrested by bandits and demanded a ransom. On August 11, Mr. Miyamoto, about 8 kilometers from Jilin across the Song Hua River, was attacked by 50 bandits and was taken with Chinese. He was the captain of the bandits who attacked, and he was called Cao Shang-Fei. Cao Shang Fei means “fly over the grass ”. It is a word to describe an animal or a person who runs at a very fast speed on the ground, and of course it is not his...
2021

A female candidate has emerged as the next president of Rengo

The Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), a national trade union center with 7 million members, is having trouble over the appointment of its next president. At first, it was seen as a “decision” for Kanzuri, who has been nominated by her successor, Yasunobu Aihara, but even as Kozu’s term as chairman is about to expire in October, an abnormal situation continues in which the next chairman cannot be decided. Aihara to Give Up Chairmanship The Rengo’s executive nomination committee, consisting of the top eight members of its industrial unions, will select the next president (usually before the May holidays), make an official decision at its regular meeting in October, and...
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Monday, August 15 1921: Hikokichi Ijuin was appointed as the first director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Information Bureau.

1921 (Taisho 10) Monday, August 15 Hikokichi Ijuin was appointed as the first director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Information Bureau. In April 1920, the previous year, the predecessor organization was established under the name of the “Information Department” in a non-governmental or informal manner. Since it was an informal organization, there was no support from the government budget, but now it has become an information bureau as an official bureau by government organization. It is a specialized public relations department that disseminates Japan’s domestic situation to foreign countries. It was established because the importance of public relations was recognized at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. In the current...
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Sunday, August 14 1921: the annual summer festival, Fukagawa Hachiman Matsuri, was held

1921 (Taisho 10) On Sunday, August 14, the annual summer festival known as the “Fukagawa Hachiman Matsuri” was held at Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine in Fukagawa, downtown Tokyo. In one of the three major festivals of Edo, Gohoren (imperial carriage) performs togyo once every three years. Gohoren is an Omikoshi (portable shrine), which has a golden phoenix on top of the house. The Gohoren at Tomioka Hachiman-gu Shrine was a gilded mikoshi that was said to have been dedicated by a wealthy merchant Bunzaemon KINOKUNIYA in the Genroku era. Furthermore, there were 3 of them, but they were unfortunately destroyed by fire in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 (Taisho 12)...