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...

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

Friday, June 10 1921 (Taisho 10): Crown Prince Hirohito, who was visiting Europe, arrived in Belgium. King Albert I and Prince Leopold of Brabant (later Leopold III) greet him in Brussels. A welcoming dinner was held at the royal palace on the same night. On the following day, he visited the grave of the late Emperor Leopold II. We received a warm welcome from the citizens. Prince Hirohito looks young and dignified. The Japanese people at that time were very happy to see the Imperial Prince. While the prince was visiting Europe, it was reported in Japanese journalism in detail almost every day. The Crown Prince was very popular. After...

On Friday, June 10, 1921, Naohiro NABESHIMA (74 years old), the former lord of the Hizen Saga Domain, was reported to be in critical condition. In 1861 (Bunkyu 1), he succeeded the lord of the Saga Domain from his father, Naomasa NABESHIMA, at the age of 16, and in 1871 (Meiji 4), he became the governor of the Saga Domain in Haihan-chiken (abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures), but he resigned; he accompanied the Iwakura Mission to study in the United States, and later moved to Oxford University in the United Kingdom. 1880 (Meiji 13) Naohiro NABESHIMA went to Rome as an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of...