Politics

Friday, October 7 1921: Crown Prince Hirohito attended the homage ceremony at Kazoku-kaikan Clubhouse.

1921 (Taisho 10) Friday, October 7: Crown Prince Hirohito (20) attended the homage ceremony at Kazoku-kaikan Clubhouse, which is for aristocratic class in Japan. After watching “Ataka” at the Noh theater, he had a friendly chat with the members. Iesato Tokugawa (58), the President of the House of Peers and the President of the House of Peers, made a statement to celebrate his safe return from his long trip to Europe. Three cheers for the party. Kazoku Kaikan Hall is present Kasumi Kaikan Hall. At 1:40 PM, he was sent to the Kazoku Kaikan (the Peerage House) to celebrate his return to Japan. Upon your arrival, all the members who...
Social

Tuesday, October 4 1921: Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School opened.

1921 (Taisho 10) Tuesday, October 4 Tokyo Prefectural Sixth Junior High School (present Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School) opened. At the time the school opened, the school did not have its own premises and school buildings in place, so we rented space for classes at a nearby junior high school, Tokyo Prefectural Fourth Junior High School (now Tokyo Metropolitan Toyama High School). In the following year, 1922 (Taisho 11), a modern reinforced concrete school building was completed at a corner of Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. The time bell of the battleship Mikasa was called “the bell that established the nation”. After the war, it became one of the most advanced...
Birthday

Monday, October 3 1921: Welfare activist Sato Hatsume was born in Aomori.

1921 ( Taisho 10 ) Monday, October 3 Welfare activist Sato Hatsume is born in Aomori. After graduating from Aomori Gigei Gakuin (current Aomori Akenohoshi High School), she became a teacher at an elementary school and married Mataichi SATO, whom she met while serving as the principal of the school. In 1992, she sponsored ‘Mori no Iskia’ at the foot of Mt. Iwaki. It is a place of healing where people with troubles and problems are accepted and pain is shared. Throughout her life, she appealed to the world to change the way we eat food with the taste of simple ingredients. She died in 2016. She was 94 years...
Birthday

Saturday, October 1 1921: Edoya Nekohachi The 3rd was born in Tokyo.

1921 (Taisho 10) Saturday, October 1 The 3rd generation Edoya Nekohachi was born in Tokyo as an impersonator and actor known for imitating animal vocal cords. His real name was Rokuro OKADA. He was the sixth son of his father, the first Nekohachi EDOYA, so he was named Rokuro. As a boy, he toured various places with his father’s troupe from Sakhalin in the north to Kyushu in the south. In 1940 (Showa 15), he joined the comedy troupe Furukawa Midorinami, and when World War II began in December 1941 (Showa 16), he was drafted into the army in 1942 (Showa 17) and went to the southern front including Rabaul....
Politics

Friday, September 30 1921: Youlan committed suicide, Mother of Aisin Gioro Pu Yi, the last emperor.

1921 (Taisho 10) Friday, September 30 Youlan, Aisin Gioro Pu Yi’s mother, committed suicide at the age of 37. He was born in 1884. His father was Ronglu, an influential person in the Qing Dynasty. She became the lawful wife of Zaifeng and Prince Chun and gave birth to Puyi, Fuketsu’s brothers and three other daughters. He collided with Empress Wen Jing (Jin Fei, a wife of Emperor Guangxu), who had power in the Forbidden City at that time, and committed suicide.
Economy

Thursday, September 29 1921: Masatoshi Okochi was nominated as the new president of Riken.

1921 (Taisho 10) Thursday, September 29 Masatoshi Okochi was nominated as the new president of RIKEN. Recommended by the president of the University of Tokyo, Kenjiro YAMAKAWA. RIKEN developed rapidly under Okochi, and the commercialization of the research results occurred one after another. 76 enterprises rose to form RIKEN group, and it grew to a part of new Zaibatsu or new Financial clique. He was also not indicted for designating Class A war criminals after the war. 1952 (Showa 27) died at the age of 73. Actress Momoko KAWACHI is the grandson of Masatoshi OKOCHI, chairman of Riken Group. Her real name was Momoko OKOCHI. 1932: She was born as...
Social

Wednesday, September 28: Billionaire Zenjiro YASUDA was stabbed to death.

1921 (Taisho 10) Wednesday, September 28: Zenjiro YASUDA (82) was stabbed to death by Heigo Asahi (31) in Juraku-an, his second residence in Oiso-cho. The Asahi also committed suicide on the spot. He brought a zankanjo (document of zankan (conspiracy of an assassin)) to inflict punishment on a cunning man. Workers and supporters throughout the country treated the morning sun as a hero, which is said to have triggered the assassination of Takashi HARA two months later. Asahi was born in Saga Prefecture in 1890 (1890) and was 31 years old at the time. Zenjiro and I are 51 years apart in age. Since he was called Judo shodan (first...
Social

Monday, September 26 1921: A large typhoon passed through the Japanese Islands.

1921 (Taisho 10) Monday, September 26 A large typhoon passed through the Japanese Islands and caused extensive damage in various areas. 661 people were killed nationwide. Nagoya and Toyama were particularly severely damaged with many deaths, with 141 in Aichi Prefecture and 156 in Toyama Prefecture. In Aichi Prefecture alone, 5838 houses were completely destroyed. In addition, a train capsized in Toyama Prefecture and a steamship sank off the coast of Dairi in Moji, northern Kyushu. This large typhoon made landfall on the night of the 25th near Cape Shionomisaki at the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula. It recorded the strongest maximum wind speed of 33.6 m/second in the...
Birthday

September 23 1921: Takara Tomoko, a Latin singer, was born.

1921 (Taisho 10) Friday, September 23 Takara Tomoko, a Latin singer, was born in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture. She joined Takarazuka Shojo Kagekidan (Takarazuka Girls Revue Company) at the age of 13 and played an active role as a star of the moon band. After the war, she debuted as a record player, recognized by the Tokyo Cuban Boys. Continuing Latin hits. In C’est Si Bon, sexy singing is controversial. He has participated in NHK Kohaku Utagassen four times. Takara Tomoko’s “C’est Si Bon” published in April 1954 was banned. This was because her sexual singing voice in the middle part of the song was regarded as problematic and many...
2021

The official circulation of the Mainichi Shimbun has fallen below 2 million. However, actual sales are much lower, rumored to be around 1 or 1.4 million copies.

As the circulation of newspapers continues to decline for a long time, the circulation of the morning edition of the Mainichi Shimbun, one of the 3 major newspapers, finally fell below 2 million in July. There was no record of the number falling to the 1 million s after World War II, and it was probably the first time since before or during the war. According to sources close to newspaper sellers, the actual number of copies sold is estimated to be around from 1 to 1.4 million, after subtracting the amount of paper that is discarded without being delivered to readers. According to a survey by the Japan ABC...