“During World War I Japan enjoyed a large economic boom because production capacity of major Western countries was mobilized for the war, and this boom boosted the development of the fire insurance industry in Japan.” – Large Fires and the Rise of Fire Insurance In Pre-war Japan, 2023

“Expansion of the fire insurance industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reflected progress of industrialization in Japan in that modern industries and large companies considerably increased the demand for fire insurance.

Launched on 7 February 1904, she was wrecked on 3 March 1907 when she struck a reef near the southern tip of the Boso Peninsula and the entrance to Tokyo Bay on her seventh journey.

S.S. Dakota was a steamship built by the Eastern Shipbuilding Company in Groton, Connecticut and owned by railroad magnate James J. Hill of the Great Northern Steamship Company. S.S. Dakota and her sister ship, S.S. Minnesota, were described at the time as the largest ships ever built in America.

Olympic swimmer Yokota Misao (using the stage name “Mizuo Misao”) made her Takarazuka debut in this production of Princess Turandot.

This 1934 stage production by the revue’s Moon Troupe ran from 6/29-7/29 at the Takarazuka Theatre in Tokyo on a triple-bill with Soukai Hikyoku (“The Secret Song of the Blue Sea”) and Takeshiba Douchuuki (“Takeshiba Road Memoirs”).

Princess Turandot was the first of several other Takarazuka musicals, most post-war, that made use of Gozzi’s original Turandot as a production model.

The Club company, which produced toothpaste, washing powder and cosmetics, was founded in Kobe in 1903 and was known for its energetic marketing to promote the company’s products.

Cities across the globe (Moscow, Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, etc.) are marked to show the reach of their reporting.

The map illustrates how the newspaper gathered and transmitted information worldwide through a modern communications network: telegraph, telephone, airplane, ship, railway, wireless photo transmission, and correspondents.

“Our company’s communication network extends widely across the world, stationing correspondents in major cities, and we take pride in being the fastest and most accurate news organization.”

“They learn that their first duty is to be loyal to their Emperor and country, and to make themselves strong, brave, and manly, so that they can serve their Emperor all the better.”

– Boy Scouts Beyond the Seas, by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, K.C.B., 1913

“The Japanese are talking of forming some troops also, and I hope they will. But they already get some of the Scout training in their own schools and homes.

Through as series of expansions and mergers, the company was renamed Nankai (‘South Sea’) in 1897.

The original Osaka-Sakaikan route in 1884 was extended to Izumisano in 1897 and then onward to Wakayama in 1903.

Caption: “The secret is to use Fine Rubber. Not only does it increase your height, but it’s also neat and tidy, and completely invisible. Wherever you go, it’s popular and discreet.”