1930 – The London disarmament conference angers Japanese Army and Navy. Japan’s navy demanded parity with the United States and Britain, but was rejected; it maintained the existing ratios and Japan was required to scrap a capital ship.
1930 – Takase is Tamira in Red Pearls. A Japanese merchant attempts to drive one of his rivals mad by impersonating a man he had once murdered.
1930 Carl Mizuno, married man with 3 children, Japanese acrobat of Hulme, Manchester, had an affiliation order (claim for child support) against him by a chorus girl Ida van Dix. Resulted in an order against him for 10s 6d until the child was 14.
1930 April – The Ando Family – five in number, Rotherham
1930 July – An unusually clever turn is that provided by the Kiraku Brothers, probably two of the cleverest acrobats seen in Coventry for some years. Lying on his back, one of the brothers uses his feet to carry out juggling tricks with his partner, who is turned into a human ball, being spun and twisted in midair in amazing fashion.
1930 – 1938 Austel & Arthur, two colonial entertainers (one of whom is Ryunosuke Iizuka). “Austell & Arthur, two Australian “strong men” perform some amazing acrobatic feats” perform in Britain.
1930 – 1937 Togo, famous Japanese juggler appears in Britain a couple of months a year.
1931 April – the Kiraku Bros., two clever Japanese acrobats
1931 Takase is Ching in Midnight
1931- Kiyoshi Takase as “Chinaman” in The Woman from China. A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant’s fiancée.
1931 Mizuno Trio
1931 August – Mitsuko, a Japanese juggler, shows himself to be at the top of his profession with a number of original tricks.
1931 September – Japanese Army seizes control of Manchuria, which China has not controlled in decades. It sets up a puppet government.
1932 Mizuno Trio, Siamese acrobats. Ladder balancing act.
1932 March – League of Blood incident – assassination of Dan Takuma, Director General of Mitsui, who had visited Britain several times
1932 May – 11 naval officers assassinate Japan’s prime minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, and the military takes more power. Their plan had also included assassinating English actor Charlie Chaplin, who had just arrived in Japan.
1932 June – the very clever acrobatics of the Kiraku Brothers are enhanced by the air of Asiatic impassivity in which they are done.
1932 July Mizuno Four – Finsbury Park.
1932 September – The Andos Family “acrobatics and jugglery.” Dundee
1932 October – Britain and France effectively control the League of Nations, which issues the Lytton Report in 1932, saying that Japan had genuine grievances, but it acted illegally in seizing Manchuria. Japan quits the League, Britain takes no action.
1932 Takase is Taki in Deadlock directed by George King. The story of murder in a film studio during the shooting of a picture. The truth is, of course, finally revealed by the camera.
1932 Takase is in Stranglehold Story of an Anglo-Chinese man who wreaks vengeance on a man who has betrayed the woman he loved.
1932 Takase is Sato in The Man They Couldn’t Arrest The story of evil gangsters, their elusive chief and an amateur detective with listening-in apparatus.
1932 Takase is in The Missing Rembrandt as Chang Wu
1932 December – Soga and Hirukawa at Olympia, Bertram Mills Circus. ladder, rope sliding
1933 January – Mitsuko – a clever Japanese juggler
1933 April – Kondo the Japanese – standing on his head he drinks a glass of wine; lying on his back, with feet in the air, he tosses a closed sunshade on to his toes, opens it, juggles with it, and closes it again: taking two ten or eleven feet poles he climbs up them and then walks around the stage on these improvised and risky looking stilts. Moreover every feat is performed with perfect accuracy and ease.
1933 August – Kiraku Brothers are two Japanese of the modern school of acrobats.
1934 Kondo and Hanako Japanese duo through to 1940 “Eastern speciality”
1934 – The Royal Navy sends ships to Tokyo to take part in a naval parade in honour of the late Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō, one of Japan’s greatest naval heroes, the “Nelson of the East”.
1934 Takase is “entertainer at feast” in Chu-Chin-Chow. A version of ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’, with a slave girl foiling Abu Hasan who is posing as Chu-Chin-Chow, a mandarin he has killed.
1934 Takase is Phirous, in The Wandering Jew. Conrad Veidt stars as the Jew who urges Roman authorities to crucify Jesus and release Barabbas. As a punishment, he is condemned by God to wander the Earth for many centuries, enduring innumerable trials and tribulations on several continents.
1934 October – The Kiraku Brothers, those quaint Japanese acrobats, have discovered new and even more ingenious stunts since I last saw them
1935 Takase is manservant/cook Ah Sing in Inside the Room. A French detective unmasks a singer as the murderer of avenging dead mother.
1935 August – Takase dies, aged 47, of an aneurism of the heart, coronary occlusion, infarct of the lung.
1935 August – The Andos Family of Japanese entertainers crown their skilful juggling acts with a series of breath-taking feats. A girl climbs on a perilous structure of stools poised on the heels of a man lying on his back. She walks up a tight rope stretched to the roof of the theatre and then slides down to the stage in one swoop. (Croydon)
1935 September – Mitsuko – clever Japanese juggler
1936 May – The Kiraku Brothers, Japanese acrobats, have been the stage since they were children, and in the last 26 years have appeared in 28 different countries and performed many times before Royalty (Sheffield)
1936 June – Mitsuko, Japanese juggler, assisted by Miss O’Hana, performs some clever work. Hull
1936 September – The Kiraku Brothers describe themselves as the happy Jappy chappies, or the East’s gift to the West (Hull)
1937 March -The Kiraku Brothers, two very skilful Japanese
1937 April – The Kamikaze, a prototype of the Mitsubishi Ki-15, travels from Tokyo to London, the first Japanese-built aircraft to land in Europe, for the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
1937 April – The Andos Family of Japanese acrobats – Bournemouth
1937 Apr-Jun – Jitsusaburo Otsu dies in Bristol
1937 May – Mitsuko Japanese juggler – skilful Oriental
1937 June – The Otsu sisters – two dexterous Japanese jugglers and acrobats – Bradford
1937 July – Masu and Yuri (Lily and Jujiro Deguchi) appear at the Union Cinemas Regal, Great Yarmouth. Celebrated stage act of juggling and pole balancing.
1937 August – Aladdin pantomime at Leeds – Chinese policemen are to be played by two Japanese, the Kiraku Brothers, comedy equilibrists
1938 – Yokohama Specie Bank acquired HSBC.
1938 February – The Oriental Otsu Sisters, are featured in balancing feats and tricks, while one sister also plays the piano accordion, her sister, Miss Connie Otsu, too, won admiration for her dancing turn.
1938 August – Doncaster Grand – last mention of Ando Family in Britain
1938 November – Mitsuko and Lady – Japanese jugglers
1938 December – Chokichi Mizuno “A Japanese juggler” of Hulme, Manchester fined for speeding.
1939 March – two daughters of the East in Oriental equilibristic feats (Otsu Sisters)
1939 April – Uno Togo juggling – Bath – last mention in British newspapers
1939 May – Mitsuko, the talented Japanese juggler
1939 June – The Tientsin Incident almost causes an Anglo-Japanese war when the Japanese blockade the British concession in Tientsin, China.
1939 August – Iizuka Brothers specializing in contortionist acrobatics
1939 September register:
Mitsu (stage artist), aged 71, Margaret (55), Kazo Ando (Takeno) (51) (stage artist), Rosa (28) and Matsu Ando (Takino) female at school (19) all living together in Hendon (85 North End Road)
Lily and Jujiro Deguchi aged 49, living at 12 Colebrook Road, Croydon – both described as variety artistes.
Totaro (music hall artist) aged 50 and Ethel Kondo living in Manchester. (Kondo and Hanako)
Toku Mizuno (47), Kojiro Mizuno (23), Ryunosuke Iizuka (45) and 1 or 2 others (redacted – Hanako?) are living at 88 Dorset Street, Manchester. Chokichi Mizuno (46) and Masakazu (25) Mizuno are in a boarding house in Darlington.
Inosuke Ide, b 31 Aug 1897, single, music hall artist, with two other music hall artists Rackham and Mcmullen
Kiraku Brothers – Hirokichi Fujii in Rotherham as travelling music hall artiste, Kamejiro Yoshida also in Rotherham in different lodgings. Toyokichi Kashikura living in Lambeth, single, music hall artist. Violet Yoshida in Lambeth, 178 Stockwell Park Road with Mr & Mrs Torii, lampshade makers, Mr & Mrs Mizuta, music hall artists.
Tomio Yamaguchi and Val (Winifred) in Elstree, music hall artist and assistant.
Charles Douthwaite/Masu Hirukawa at 2 Park Hotel Cottages, Middlesbrough as a music hall acrobat travelling worker with Herta (music hall show woman travelling) and Ralph and one other child.
Gintaro Mizuhara at 2 Library Mansions, Hammersmith, London, born 1875, aged 64, travelling music hall artiste, with Elizabeth Weir, music hall artiste, incapacitated, 41
Rene Takeda living in Wandsworth, working as an icecream saleswoman with Yuri and Lavinia, both milliners. No record of Naojiro.
Ichitaro Naito 46 in 1939, living in Harrow with Margaret. Music hall artist temporarily carpenter’s labourer. Foot juggler.
Nabekichi Mayeda (46, variety artist) living with his wife Theresa in Whitstable, Kent.
1939 October – were 790 men and 176 women of Japanese nationality registered with the police – not including diplomats, British-born wives and children under 16.
1939 December – Otsu Sisters, Marjorie in novelty dances and Connie in contortions and wonderful balancing, score a big success (Belfast)
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