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Yasuda consolidated his empire in banking and finance, specializing in backing small and medium-sized traders and industrialists. In 1880, Yasuda founded the Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Company [3] (now Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance). In 1893, the Yasuda zaibatsu absorbed the Tokyo Fire Insurance Company, later renamed the Yasuda Fire and Marine ...
Eleanor Martha Hadley (July 17, 1916 – June 1, 2007) was an American economist and policymaker. Because of her relatively rare research specialization in Japanese economics, during World War II Hadley was recruited first into OSS and then the State Department to support the United States' war effort while she was a doctoral candidate in economics at Radcliffe College.
The Yasuda clan was a Japanese samurai kin group in the Sengoku period and Edo period. [1] History ... Yasuda zaibatsu; Yoko Ono; Paul Hisao Yasuda; References
The "Big Four" zaibatsu (四大財閥, Yondai Zaibatsu) of, in chronological order of founding, Sumitomo, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Yasuda were the most significant zaibatsu groups. Two of them, Sumitomo and Mitsui, had roots in the Edo period while Mitsubishi and Yasuda traced their origins to the Meiji Restoration .
Isoko's adoptive maternal grandfather Zenjiro Yasuda (安田 善次郎, Yasuda Zenjirō) was an affiliate of the Yasuda clan and zaibatsu. Eisuke came from a long line of samurai warrior-scholars. [16] The kanji translation of Yōko (洋子) means "ocean child".
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
Yasuda Kinen, a Japanese horse race held in Tokyo; Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Company, a part of the Yasuda zaibatsu, later merged into Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance; Yasuda Station (disambiguation), two train stations in Japan; Yasuda Women's University in Hiroshima; Yasuda zaibatsu, a financial conglomerate owned and managed by the Yasuda family
A 33-year-old man was charged Monday for allegedly setting on fire and killing a woman on a New York subway train in what authorities called a “brutal murder” and an example of “depraved ...