The Japanese at Smyrna: Tokei Maru, 1922
----- THE JAPANESE AT SMYRNA: TOKEI MARU, 1922 By Professor Dan Georgakas Published in The National Herald, August 4, 2018 ------------------------------ I am excited that The National Herald has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group. ------------------------------ A fascinating aspect of the Smyrna disaster of 1922 was the unanticipated appearance of a Japanese freighter that evacuated more than 800 Greeks and Armenians at a time when other nations would not. The name of the ship, its captain, and why it was in Smyrna that fatal first week of September has never been clarified. A critical historical breakthrough regarding the ship was made in the past decade by Stavros Stavridis. a frequent contributor to this newspaper. By examining the back issues of two Athenian newspapers, “Eleftheros Typos” (September 4, 2008) and “Impros,” (September 6), he found the name of the J...
