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In the UK as well, he energetically visited the cotton industry and the textile machinery industry. Kiichiro stayed in Oldham from January 15, 1922 to the end of January, parting from Mr. and Mrs. Risaburo, to receive training at Pratt. During the training period at Pratt on the manufacturing process and manufacturing method of spinning machines, he worked on research on convertible automatic loom.
Then, in late February 1922, Kiichiro and his colleagues boarded the Hakone Maru from Marseille and stopped by Shanghai on the way back to Japan.
The training Kiichiro received at Pratt was later useful for manufacturing looms and spinning machines at Toyota Industries Corporation, and this tour was very meaningful for Kiichiro.
See also: http://sadoi-lab.com/mba/20140616/Kiichiro%20Toyoda.pdf
"Edmund Blunden and the Incitements of Japan" by Miriam J. Benkovitz:
At last on Friday, March 28, 1924 at 4:10 P.M., Blunden left Liverpool Street Station, London, on the boat-train for Southampton, where he boarded the S. S. Hakone Maru to sail by way of Singapore and Hong Kong half-way round the "swaying" world to Japan. There he came ashore at Yokohama and was promptly "hurried along in the most amiable manner" to see the Maiko Conchological Cabinet. What acquaintance satisfied his own enthusiasm for the Conchological in this way or why is lost now, but Blunden never forgot the incident.
From introduction to his "Undertones of War": (see left)
Edmund Blunden and Japan: The History of a Relationship includes photo of him aboard ship in Prince Albert Docks on March 28.
http://themargins.net/bib/B/BD/bd137.html reprinted in Edmund Blunden : a tribute from Japan available at LOC or Princeton or UNC
He recalls here details of the trip and these lead to memories of years past, particularly of a day thirty-five years earlier when Saitô Takeshi (Ap) saw him off from London on the Hakone Maru, and another six weeks later when he first met Ichikawa Sanki (Ap) at Tokyo Station. These friends have been with him ‘again and again’ in ‘these latest lectures and reunions’.
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Mr Edmund Blunden , who has been on the editorial staff of the Nation and the Athenaeum since he returned from the trenches, has been appointed Professor of English Literature at Tokio University.
Source: The Scotsman - Friday 22 February 1924, p. 4.Mr. Edmund Blunden, whose book poems, “The Shepherd," won the Hawwthornden Prize in 1922, and who has been on the editorial staff of the “Nation and the Athenaeum" since he returned from the War, has been appointed Professor of English Literature Tokyo University. leaves for Japan early March.
Source: Northern Whig - Saturday 23 February 1924, p. 6.Two Poets for Japan. Two of our choicest poets are to leave us for Japan. Mr. Edmund Blunden. who has revived the Goldsmith strain with a deeper note in his treatment of country life, sails this week-end to take up the place of Mr. Robert Nichols as lecturer in poetry at the Tokio University.
In a few months M.r. Ralph Hodgson will take up a similar post at the , Tohoku University at Sendai, where he may stay for three years. Japanese students will be fortunate to have as their guides the two writers of our age whose work is so beautiful and true that it is lifted above Georgian experimentalism into poetry without date or sophistication.
Source: Westminster Gazette - Saturday 29 March 1924, p. 4.TOKIO UNIVERSITY. MR. E. BLUNDEN GETS CHAIR ENGLISH LITERATURE. Mr. Edmund Blunden, a well-known nature poet and journalist, son of Mr. Charles E. Blunden, the schoolmaster of Salcombe Council School, has been elected to the Chair English Literature the Imperial University of Tokio. He sailed from England on Saturday, conveying with him the best wishes of a host of friends in London and South Devon. The " New Statesman" remarks on the selection as proof how good the taste of the Japanese can be in English literature, as Mr. Blunden is regarded the foremost successor of the line of true English poets. The appointment is also noteworthy from the fact that the choice has fallen upon one distinguished by his literary achievements rather than his purely scholastic attainments.
Source: Western Morning News - Wednesday 02 April 1924, p.4." l am not prepared to dismiss Edmund Blunden with such unaffected carelessness and indifference as the country generally dismisses him to a professorship in an Oriental university."
Source: Cornish Guardian - Friday 18 April 1924, p. 5.See https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001861/19240510/034/0032 for bio?
Malcolm Duncan Kennedy (Reuters reporter) sails January, arriving Shanghai March 13. From his diaries.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.694153!/file/KennedyBiography.pdf:
"Captain Kennedy sailed from Britain on 31 January 1925 on board the N.Y.K. Line's Hakone Maru to take up his new appointment. A letter from Reuters Chief Editor, Herbert Jeans, was his main source of guidance for his new career. This letter warned him to tread warily especially when cabling news on U.S.-Japanese relations211 . On his arrival in Shanghai on 13 March Kennedy reported to Reuters Far Eastern Headquarters. He was annoyed at being told that he would have to spend one or two days there "to learn the ropes" instead of continuing out to Japan on the Hakone Maru. Kennedy finally arrived in Tokyo a week later212. As Reuters correspondent he was to be based in the offices of the Japanese Kokusai News Agency to which Reuters was allied."
July 12, 1927, Harold Eustace Coad (British Royal Engineers) returns to London (from Yokohama, on same voyage as Korean prince) from working in Japan during 1920's.
Eigo Fukai. revenant de Londres, sont arrivés "ette nuit, à Kob~ par le paquebot < Hakone-Maru Les deux délégués japonais à la Conférence économique mondiale, qui rentreront à Tokio vendredi matin, seront Immédiatement reçus ea audience par l'empereur ....
Source: Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 1933/10/07 (Number 278), p. 1.
Google Translate: "[Caption] Jigoro Kano at the age of 78 on board the “Hakone Maru” on the way to the IOC Congress in Cairo in 1938." ... "On May 4, 1938, Kano-Shihan died of pneumonia on board the Japanese ship Hikawa-Maru on the way back from Cairo, where he had attended an IOC conference"
Junzo Sakakura (Architect) A [Google translate from Japanese]
young architect who studied under Le Corbusier, Junzo Sakakura's return from Paris at the Hakone Maru was reported in the Yomiuri Shimbun on January 12, 1939.
"Junzo Sakakura, who has stayed in Europe for many years and was awarded for the design of the Japan Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Expo, and is known as an up-and-coming architect who designed the new Japanese embassy in Berlin, is with Isaku Nishimura, the daughter of the director of the Bunka Gakuin. After getting engaged, I will be returning to the morning at Hakone Maru, which sails from Marseille on the 13th. (Omitted) Miss Yuri, who is currently staying in Paris, will soon be heading to Japan via the United States. "
Source: Of Japanese using the NYK European routes recordHatsue Yuasa Soprano singer
returned to Japan on July 6, 1939 at the Hakone Maru in Kobe. The next day, the Yomiuri Shimbun said,
"The famous combination of Takeo Hirose at the time of the Russo-Japanese War, a seed of Major Takejiro Yuasa, who was scattered as the captain of the Lushun Port Blockage Corps Sagamimaru, and the voice musician Hatsue (35), Kobe At the port of Hakone Maru, I stepped on the soil of my homeland."
Yuasa broke up with her Japanese husband in Germany and remarried to pianist Walter Meitzner, who died eight years ago and returned to Japan.
"I'm not going to Europe anymore," he said.
Source: Of Japanese using the NYK European routes recordWest Village its (cultural institute founder, the four-woman Isaku Nishimura)
Nishimura Sono Cultural Institute The fourth daughter of Isaku Nishimura, the founder of. When diplomat Kozo Ichige was appointed as Consul General of Prague, he wanted a Japanese woman to accompany him to Prague as a conversation partner for his daughter Mimi. That intention was conveyed to Natsu Kawasaki, a female liberation activist who had a close relationship with the Nishimura family, and Sono's trip to Europe was decided. On July 29, 1939, he was sent to a send-off tape and left Yokohama at Hakone Maru [On August 3]. As we approached the Red Sea, a war began in Europe.
"I remember like yesterday. When I went out to the deck and looked at the sky, the star I had seen earlier came to the other side before I knew it. Oh? Why is this ship returning to its original path? The news came out on the inboard microphone to the place where I was saying, "The ship once returned to Aden, but it was decided that refueling might not be possible because it is British territory, so I turned to Cairo again. Changed. On the other hand, a group of diplomats, including Consul Ichige, immediately sent an inquiry to Japan and replied, "Leave the family to your free will. The diplomat himself should be assigned as planned."
As a matter of course, Consul General Ichige inquired about his father Isaku about his future actions, but as Sono expected, he said, "Act with the Ichige family."
Source: Of Japanese using the NYK European routes recordFound oral story she has about the trip!
virtue EiYasushimoto (studying in Budapest University)
I was starting to Hungary study abroad, 23 December of late 1939, NYK Line I left Kobe Port at Hakone Maru. (This is the next voyage of Sono Nishimura mentioned above-the author) It turned out that Italy would not participate in the war for the time being, and a ship would go to Europe again, and the first flight was Hakone Maru. (This is not correct-I)
On this voyage to the war-torn Europe, most of the passengers were diplomats, military attachés, and other people who were assigned to public affairs, and there were few family members, so it was a rather bleak voyage. .. There were only four international students.
Passenger ships on European routes at that time departed from Yokohama, but it was customary for most passengers to board in Kobe. As you head south toward Singapore, German submarines aiming at British and French ships will appear, so the Hakone Maru of Japan, a non-warring country, draws a large Hinomaru on the side of the ship so that you can see it from the sea far away every night. In addition, he continued his voyage while shining brightly.
Upon arriving at Portside, Arabs come to sell Italian lira banknotes at a low black price. Here, the people of the trading company who were assigned to Alexandria got off the ship. I arrived in Naples on the night of January 28th.
The other four international students written by Tokunaga (from "Budapest Recollection") are Kenji Moriya, Muneo Takei (Applied Chemistry), and Mamoru Watanabe (Aesthetics), who are exchange students from Japan and Germany.
Taiji Takashima, an Army interpreter who was already in Berlin, wrote in his diary:
"February 6, 1940 I went to Yokohama Specie Bank (Bank) with Muneo Takei of Waseda University's Faculty of Engineering who just arrived in Berlin last night. I was introduced before I left Japan, but the war broke out. I'm a little surprised at the nerve to study abroad after that, "said a military official who was a surprised international student during the war.
Source: Of Japanese using the NYK European routes record
Edith Rice Plews and J.C. Plews
Edith Rice Plews and J.C. Plews
Part of a long Hawaiian family, Edith marries an Englishman who appears to be a businessman in Shanghai. Apparently an expert on Hawaiian poetry (see her published lecture), also co-author of Hawaiian quilt book.
J.C. find very little. 1926 book shows him working for The Bradford Dyer's Association Ltd. in Shanghai. In March 1927, he is Hawaii en route to England while on home leave. By August 20, he and Edith are engaged, and on September 7, they were married. [Photograph here.]
They both returned to Hawaii to live on July 31, 1930. In March 1932, they entertained Shanghai Police Chief while he was in port. 1935 clipping shows him as on Kauai Chamber of Commerce.
One minor snide remark about Edith in Mary Moragne Cooke's oral history:
We had these two women who were children of Charlie Rice who had this wonderful home down in Kalapaki Bay, Edith who married Jack Plews, and Juliet who married a guy named Wichman. Edith Plews and Juliette Wichman. My mother called the Rice family the “puffed Rices,” because they had a tendency to be roly-poly. Edith Plews lived in England during the war and she came back after the war was over to live on Kaua‘i. She was still just big and fat and I can remember her talking about food rationing and I always thought, “Hmm, you didn’t look like you got rationed very much.”
(Laughter)
But she loved to wear big fancy hats and she was very beautifully dressed with all this fancy, frilly underwear that she’d have specially made for a large size in Hong Kong where they lived for part of the time. Her sister Juliet, who was younger, was the kolohe one in the family. She is the one that bought Limahuli Valley.
Canadian survivor of Spanish Civil War arrived in Southampton on July 25, 1938 (from Gibraltar. William Angell )
"Japan's Response to the Zionist Movement in the 1920," Bulletin of the Graduate School of International Relations I.U.J. No.2. by Naoki MARUYAMA
Sailed October 24, 1927, presumably to Port Said.
On Sakai Shogun, a Christian pastor, see "Jews and the Japanese: The Successful Outsiders"
蕗谷虹儿的 (Oogu Hong'er)
蕗谷虹儿的 (Oogu Hong'er)
Goes to Paris in summer/fall 1925
Dealing only with Google Translate on this, but it appears it gets a huge following in China in 1929 due to a publisher Lu Xun, even though he returns from Paris unhappy that year.
See https://3g.163.com/fashion/article/AJAPQ0MC00264MK3.html, https://www.517japan.com/viewnews-112844.html
Best: http://www.dongyangjing.com/disp1.cgi?zno=10056&&kno=001&&no=0011 :
"On September 2, 1925, Hong'er left her two younger brothers and the young eldest son in Tokyo, entrusted her female disciples to assist in their care, and took his wife to go to France from Kobe Port by "Hakone Maru". The newspapers and magazines, publishing organizations and some admirers of Hong'er Fenggong held a grand farewell ceremony for him. A large photo of Hong'er farewell to Ougu was published in a prominent position in the newspaper published the next day."
F. A. Barthoiomeusz (Asia 21) was sole agent for Gold Leaf tea; see http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/malayansatpost19300823-1.2.5.1 See ad below, also ads in 1928, 1929 etc. [probably just traveling, appear to be Singapore residents/family]
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19300818-1.2.11.1
Lots of stuff about him. Honored for his work with infectious diseases in Germany, which led to his death after the war. Took Hakone Maru in spring 1937 (Europe 40). From this recreation, it would appear that he traveled all the way around, rather than getting off in Naples, as probably most people going to Germany would have done.
Found out from very recent exhibition in his home town. "The amount of money spent on brothers, including Dr. [Koenuma], is recorded. "The Hakone Maru is 800 yen. The Hakone Maru is a ship that I got on when I went from Japan to Germany. I heard that the starting salary for college graduates at that time was about 50 yen, and I was surprised at the amount.""
Hilario Moncado
Hilario Moncado
Moncado maybe belongs in Chapter 13
Leviathan arrived April 21 in Cherbourg. AP Report London June 22. Article from London. Next report Berlin 28th and Paris 30th. Arrived in Manila by July 6. So, since Singapore June 7, possible he got on Hakone Maru in Marseilles (May 14)
was Melita O'Hara on ship with Sato in 1934? See this article
Europe 43
Doshisha University led by Tetsutaro Ariga (seems to have religious focus if he same Ariga i find Googling) [See photograph of group in Appendix A]
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La Stampa:
Imminent arrival in Italy of Japanese university students
Rome, 9 July
On the 15th of this month, a group of Japanese students from the Doshi-Sha University of Kuyoto will arrive in Naples with the steamer Hakone Maru, The young Japanese university students, who will travel across Italy in two Japanese brand cars, will make contact in the various cities with our youth organizations in order to help improve the knowledge of the life and thought of the two friendly - the ties of cordiality existing between the young people of Italy and Japan are more intimate.
Europe 2 Korean journalist :
but Kim Hyun-jun was the first person in Korea to study in Germany to become a journalism doctor. First German Journalist Ph.D. Kim Hyun-jun
Kim Hyun-jun (金賢準) was born in Naju (or Yeongam), Jeollanam-do, and joined the 2-8 Declaration of Independence in 1919 while studying at Oriental University in Tokyo. He met with Kim Do-yeon, Choi Won-soon, and Jeong Kwang-ho, insisting on the time to start the independence movement, and hastily returned to Korea with Kim An-sik to raise money for the living. C. After graduating from Dongyang University, he left to study in Germany after writing a thesis entitled'Cultural Life and Philosophy' in the socialist magazine New Life published in June 1922. He left Kobe on May 8th. Hakone Maru. A detailed journey to Germany via Southeast Asia via Shanghai and Hong Kong on the Hakone Maru was carried in his new life ® In Germany, Karl Biicher from the University of Leipzig
Late 1939
booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/b9789004246461s050?crawler=true
Sep 16, 2011 - Rosa left London in late 1939 on the Hakone Maru to be married to Eikichi in January 1940.The Itoh parents,Takenosuke and Fuki, who had not yet met their future daughter-in-law,awaited her arrival with excitement and trepidation, not knowing quite what to expect from their son's chosen foreign-educated ...
Second source: The Japanese Community in Pre-War Britain: From Integration to Disintegration:
1925 (Europe 9): George Mayne and family to London first home leave since 1898?
1926 (Asia 10): Arrivals from Naples (H. E. and Mrs. T. F. Tang and family), from Colombo (Mr. E. P. Musso), from Marseilles (Mr. M. M. Denegeri, Mr. M. K. Boyd), and from London (Mrs. D. H. Cooke and Miss B. Cooke).
Japanese Scouts Assemble on Arrival in Copenhagen
From: Det Danske Spejderkorps, Jambo, Official Newspaper of the 2nd World Jamboree, 1924
Also: "Japanese scouts arriving at Central Station, Copenhagen, Denmark. They were welcomed by Christian Holm, President of the Danish Scouts. Also present are Rear Admiral Count Sano and Viscount Mishima"
Second World Jamboree
Second World Jamboree
1924 (Europe 6): 20 Japanese boy scouts going to 2d World Jamboree in Copenhagen
[From this site: "In 1924, Japan fielded a full contingent of 25 to the 2nd World Scout Jamboree in Denmark under Rear Admiral Count Sano Tsuneha, during which Count Sano attended a Wood Badge course at Gilwell Park. Count Sano returned to Japan and created Japan's own training course, called Jisshu-jo, for both Cub and Scout leaders, which is still used to this day, after completion of two preliminary courses, Koshu-kai and Kenshu-kai."]
[BYU collection--Letter about scouts being at reception King George had for scouts from commonwealth. Letter introducing Count Sano. Also, a letter in Japanese.]
TRANS–PACIFIC BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE CASE OF THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT IN OSAKA, JAPAN SHIGEO FUJIMOTO Australasian Journal of American Studies Australasian Journal of American Studies Vol. 27, No. 2 (December 2008), pp. 29-43 (15 pages):
[See history of International Troop.]
A[lfred]. E. Daff, Far Eastern supervisor for the Universal Pictures, returned to Manila last Sunday morning on the Hakone Maru from a tour of the Far East, extending to Egypt. He reported that two days after his arrival in Iraq, the coup by Rashid All was announced while the regent, Abdullah Illah, fled to Baghdad.
Salvaging Garada
Salvaging Garada
Other links:
https://www.poheritage.com/Upload/Mimsy/Media/factsheet/93218GARADA-1919pdf.pdf
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19371028-1.2.57
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19371019-1.2.85
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19371019-1.2.84
A. J. Daly
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