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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (JUNE) 1906-7.

scholars of Western learning, and has aided materially in introducing

Western Civilization to Japan;

created Baron, 1900. Address:

Tokyo, Japan.

KATO, Masayoshi (TOKYO), Vice- President of Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Co.); b. Feb., 1854. Was, for a considerable period, a clerk in the IIyogo Local Office; resigned to enter Nippon Yusen Kaisha; elected Director of the Company, 1889; Managing Director, 1893. Address: Tokyo,

Japan.

KATO, Masuo (TOKYO), ex-Adviser to the Corean Government; b. Nov.,

1854, in Mie-Ken. Clerk in the Foreign Office, 1877; Chancellor of the Legation at Hague; Councillor of Foreign Office, 1891; Consul at Fusan, 1894; removed to Seoul as Secretary of Legation and ultimately became Minister; ap- pointed adviser of Corean Govern-

ment, 1899.

Address: Tokyo,

Japan.

KATO, Taka-akira (Tokyo), G.C.M.G.,

Proprietor of "Nichi Nichi" Newspaper; b. at Nagoya, Jan., 1857. Educ.: Tokyo University. Was Private Secretary to Minister

of Foreign Affairs, 1888; transferred to Banking Bureau, Taxation

Bureau, etc., of Finance Office; Minister at London, 1894-1899;

Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1900-

1901; elected M.P., Aug., 1902 and March, 1903; Proprietor of “Nichi

Nichi" since 1904; Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Saionji

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Cabinet from Jan. to March, 1906.. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

KATO, Tsunetada (TOKYO), Minister at Brussels; b. at Matsuyama, 1859. Attaché at Paris, 1886; Secretary at the Foreign Office, 1891; trans- ferred as Secretary, to the Legation

at Paris, 1892-97; recalled home and

appointed Private Secretary; Min- ister Resident three years later; Minister to Belgium, 1902. Address:

Japanese Legation, Brussels, Beligium; Tokyo, Japan.

KATSURA, General Count Taro

(TOKYO), ex-Prime Minister; b.

Nov., 1847, at Choshu. Educ.: in Germany. Fought in Restoration War as Imperialist Vice-Minister

of War, 1886-1891; Commander of

the famous Nagoya Army Division during Chino-Japanese War, 1894- 1895; Governor-General of Formosa,

1896; Minister for War, 1898 to 1900;

Prime Minister from June, 1901,

to

Jan., 1906; created Count, 1902, on occasion of signing of Anglo- Japanese Treaty; resigned Prime

Ministership, Jan., 1906. Deco-

rations: 3rd Order of Golden Kite.

Address: Tokyo, Japan.

KAUZAKI, Naozo (Tokyo), Manager and Editor, "British Trade Journal'

(Japanese Edition); b. Oct. 9, 1861;

m. May, 1883. Educ.: Imperial Uni- versity, Tokyo. Imperial Japanese Commissioner to the Louisiana

Purchase Exposition, 1904; Sec- retary, House of Peers under

Baron Kentaro Kaneko, Chief Sec- retary (now Privy Councillor),

Professor of English, Waseda Uni-

versity. Decoration: 6th Order of