Politics

Thursday, June 30, 1921: Soprano singer, Kazuko Sasada was born.

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...

Politics

Wednesday, June 29, 1921: Maring, the representative of Comintern in China, arrived in Shanghai

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...

Politics

Tuesday, June 28 1921: Utako Shimoda visited Prime Minister Takashi Hara

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...

Birthday

Monday, June 27 1921: Aiki-Do master Ueshiba Kisshomaru was born.

1921 (Taisho 10) On Monday, June 27, Ueshiba Kisshomaru, the second chief priest of Aikido, was born. He is the third son of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder and founder of aikido. Founder Morihei was a devout believer in Onizaburo Deguchi, who was the actual founder of the religious group Omoto, when Kisshomaru was born. He led his family and moved to Ayabe, Oomoto’s base in Kyoto Prefecture, and Kisshomaru was born there. After graduating from Waseda Senior High School, Kisshomaru entered Waseda University’s Faculty of Politics and Economics, and while working at ShinNihon Securities, he also served as the dojo manager of the Aikido Main School in place of his...

Social

Saturday, June 25, 1921: Asakusa Association was inaugurated.

Saturday, June 25, 1921: ‘Asakusa no Kai’ (Association of Asakusa) was inaugurated. It is a unique meeting where those who are related to entertainment in Asakusa, especially active movies and those who are related to education in the Ministry of Education meet. “Helen Keller,” a foreign movie released in February of the same year, was the first film recommended by the Ministry of Education. Led by Yoshihisa Norisugi, the social director of the Education Ministry’s Bureau of Education, an attempt to utilize movies for youth education is being promoted. In an interview with “Shakai to Kyoka,” a magazine that launched the same year, Yamane Mikito, a film director, said, “If...

Social

Thursday, June 23 1921: Hariharnath Toral Atal memorial service.

1921 (Taisho 10) Thursday, June 23 A memorial service for Indian lecturer Hariharnath Toral Atal at Tokyo School of Foreign Languages will be held at Tokyo Imperial University. On June 14, around 2 PM, Atal was in agony after taking a powerful drug in an 8-mat room on the second floor of his house. The maid found him in agony and immediately gave him medical treatment, but his death was confirmed at 4 PM. Atal came to Japan 5 years ago, in 1916, from Varanasi city of United Province in India, now called Uttar Pradesh, which was then part of the British territory. He has always complained about British rule...

Politics

Wednesday, June 22 1921: the 3rd Comintern World Championship was held in Moscow.

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...

Politics

Monday, June 20 1921: Crown Prince Hirohito toured the LONCIN battery in the city of Liege.

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,...

Politics

Saturday, June 18 1921: Naohiro Nabeshima, former lord of the Hizen Saga Domain, died.

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...

Academic

Friday, June 17 1921: The first Japanese candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, Nagao ARIGA died.

On Friday, June 17, 1921 (Taisho 10), Nagao ARIGA, a famous jurist, died at the age of 60. Ariga was born in 1860 to a family of poets in Osaka and graduated from the department of literature 15 at Tokyo Imperial University in 1882. Later, he went to Europe to study under Stein of the University of Vienna in Austria, and became an expert on international law of war. In 1913, he became a legal advisor to Yuan Shikai, the Provisional President of the Republic of China, and defended the Imperial Movement. As he opposed the 21 Demands to China that Japan submitted, he was in fierce conflict with Takaaki...