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On August 5 the shogunate sent to the various daimyos copies of the translation of the American president’s letter. The shogunate had previously made all decisions by itself, but now that the order established more than 200 years ago seemed to be crumbling, it had no choice but to give the daimyos a voice in national policy.
Donald Keene • Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
The technocrats made this demand under the motto “technological patriotism” (gijutsu hōkoku).42
Hiromi Mizuno • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
Riken Zaibatsu in the late 1920s. He
Hiromi Mizuno • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
While Eisenhower wrestled with the bookkeeping, MacArthur settled in. He’d met his second wife, Jean, on the trip over. His only son, Arthur MacArthur IV, was born in Manila, with Manuel Quezon as the godfather. MacArthur took up residence in the penthouse of the Parsons-designed Manila Hotel. He became a fixture of Manila society, even receiving a
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A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–63 | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core
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Morgan was among the first generation of bankers whose clients were primarily private corporations instead of governments, but there were substantial continuities in approach. His mediations among the railroad barons were very much in the tradition of the supranational financial/diplomatic service operated by the Rothschilds and the Barings in
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