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Thursday, September 22 1921: Politician Miyazawa Hiroshi was born in Fukuyama City.

1921 (Taisho 10) Thursday, September 22 Politician Miyazawa Hiroshi was born in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Hiroshi Miyazawa is the second son of three famous Miyazawa brothers in Hiroshima prefecture. My eldest son, who is two years older than me, became the 78th Prime Minister, Kiichi Miyazawa, and my second son, Hiroshi Miyazawa, served as Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Tomiichi Murayama, serving as Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture and later as a member of the House of Councilors. His third son, Tai Miyazawa, was a diplomat and also a German ambassador. These three Miyazawa brothers and their father, Yutaka Miyazawa, are also members of the House of Representatives,...
Academic

Saturday, September 17 1921: Waseda won baseball game against UW.

1921 (Taisho 10) Saturday, September 17 Baseball interchange between Washington University and Waseda University. Tens of thousands of fans gather at the Totsuka baseball stadium of Waseda University. During the ceremonial first pitch, an airplane operated by Kotaro Oguri dropped six large rubber balls with the flags of Japan and the United States from the sky toward the center of the ground. The audience was very excited by the first production in Japan. Waseda won the game 1-0.
Social

Saturday, September 17 1921: Tadamichi SAKAI, a former Feudal lord, passed away.

1921 (Taisho 10) On Saturday, September 17, the 14th head of the Sakai family in the Shonai Clan of Dewa Province, Tadamichi SAKAI, passed away. He was 66 years old. He is the younger brother of the famous Tadazumi Sakai and Tadamichi Sakai brothers at the end of the Edo period. The Shonai Domain was based in today’s Tsuruoka City and was ruled by the Sakai clan, a fudai daimyo (a daimyo in hereditary vassal to the Tokugawa family), throughout the Edo period. Fudai daimyo are usually transferred frequently, or transferred to another province, in order to separate them from the resident landlord aspect, but the Sakai family of Shonai...
Politics

Friday, September 16 1921: Japanese Painter Manyou Ito was born, brother of Yukiji Asaoka.

1921 (Taisho 10) Friday, September 16 The second son Mitsuru was born to Shinsui ITO, a young Japanese-style painter and printmaker who was 23 years old at that time, and his wife Yoshiko. Shinsui participated in the new woodblock print movement at that time including Goyo Hashiguchi, and he energetically published his works. In 1922 (Taisho year 11), the year following the birth of Man, his work “Sashi” distinguished himself by winning a silver medal at the Peace Memorial Tokyo Exhibition. It became popular for its bijinga (beautiful women’s pictures) with the unique soft expression of Japanese-style painting, which succeeded the orthodoxy of Utagawa school Ukiyoe. She was the model...
Social

Saturday, September 10 1921: The Japan Football Association (JFA) was established.

1921 (Taisho 10) Saturday, September 10: The Japan Football Association (JFA) was established. The origin of soccer is said to be the football festival held in England in the middle ages. In the 19 century, the rules were improved and it is said that the first rules for football were established at Cambridge University in 1848. 15 years later, the Football Association was founded in London in 1863. The football association in England is the oldest football association in the world and is called The FA. In 1871, the first FA Cup was held and the Wonders Football Club in London won. Football has grown in popularity internationally, and in...
Social

Friday, September 9 1921: Young actress Virginia Rappe has died at the age of 26.

1921 ( Taisho 10 ) Friday, September 9 Actress Virginia Rappe has died of peritonitis from a ruptured bladder. She was 26 years old. The death will be one of the most famous in the history of Hollywood scandals. Virginia Rappe was an actress who was active in silent movies. I was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 7, 1895. Her father was absent and raised by a single mother, but after her mother died at the age of 11, she was raised by his grandmother. She started working as an art model at the age of 14, moved to California in 1916 at the age of 21, and made...
Birthday

Thursday, September 8 1921: Famous Baseball Manager, Taki Masao was born.

1921 (Taisho 10) Thursday, September 8 The Chukyo Commercial High School baseball team (now Chukyo High School attached to Chukyo University) manager Taki Masao was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture. He also participated in Koshien five times as a player at the Chukyo Commercial Baseball Club, where he later became the manager. In the summer of 1937 (Showa 12) and the spring of 1938 (Showa 13), he won 2 championships as a catcher. The pitcher of Chukyo Commerce, which combined the battery, was Jiro Noguchi who was said to be an iron-arm pitcher. Especially in the 1937 summer tournament, he pitched to Kumamoto Kogyo, which had Tetsuji Kawakami in the...
Politics

Tuesday, September 6 1921: Shotaro Kokubu, the Vice Minister of the King Yi Bureau, died.

1921 (Taisho 10) On Tuesday, September 6, Shotaro Kokubu, the Vice Minister of the King Yi Bureau of Korea under Japanese rule, died suddenly. Kokubu is a well-known diplomat proficient in Korean, and served as an interpreter during negotiations between Japan and the ROK by Hirobumi Ito. When the Chosen Sotoku-fu was established in 1910 (Meiji 43), he became the head of the Personnel Bureau. Because of the strong trust of the Yi Dynasty, he transferred the former royal family of Korea to the Yi Dynasty Bureau under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the Imperial Household, and served as the second vice minister after the Minister of the Yi...
Politics

Saturday, September 3 1921: Prince Hirohito landed in Yokohama after completing his European tour

1921 (Taisho 10) On Saturday, September 3, Prince Hirohito landed in Yokohama after completing his European tour. Prime Minister Takashi Hara, Minister of State and other high-ranking officials boarded the battleship Katori from Yokohama Port to greet the Crown Prince. There were a lot of visitors at Yokohama Port. We took a train from Yokohama Station to Tokyo Station, and then returned to Takanawa Togu Gosho in a covered carriage from Tokyo Station. The whole roadside was filled with a crowd that had no room to stand, and the cheers of “banzai” never stopped. According to a message from Crown Prince Hirohito, the most impressive things during his visit to...
Politics

Friday, September 2 1921: European tour of Crown Prince Hirohito ended successfully.

1921 (Taisho 10) Friday, September 2 Crown Prince Hirohito’s European tour ended successfully. The battleship Katori carrying Imperial Prince Hirohito arrived at Tokyo Bay one day earlier than scheduled. Kimigayo and banzai were welcomed by those who anchored in Tateyama Bay and filled the land and sea. According to the True Record of Emperor Showa, tens of thousands of visitors waved national flags and shouted “banzai” repeatedly along the bay’s coast. In the afternoon, about 30,000 elementary and middle school students from Chiba Prefecture held a flag parade. At night, a large procession of red lanterns is held at Tateyama Beach by residents of both Tateyama and Hojo. The crown...