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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (June) 190 C-7.

War of 1877; appointed Vice- Minister of War, 1892; Governor-

General of Formosa with additional

duty as Minister of War, Dec.,

1900-Oct., 1902; Minister of Home

Affairs, July-Oct., 1903; shortly

before ontbreak of last War appointed Vice-Chief of General

Staff, retaining Governorship of Formosa, and Chief of Staff of Manchurian Army; promoted pre- sent post, 1996; created Viscount, 1906. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

K'O FENG-SHIH (KUEICHOU), Go- vernor; native of Hupeh; metropoli- tan graduate, 1883. Compilor at Hanlin; Literary Chancellor, Shunsi, Sept., 1838; 1-Nan Tao, Yunnan, Dec., 1899; Salt Commis- sioner, Auhwei, May, 1900; Judge, Kiangsi, 1901; Treasurer, Yunnan, Oct., 1901 ; do., Kiangsi, Oct. 1901; Governor of Kwangsi, July, 1903; Governor of Kueichou, May, 1904.

KOKE,

Matsuoka (Tokyo), Minister for Agriculture and Commerce;

b. 1816. Enterel Government service in 1870 as Secretary in De- partment of Justice, and became Chief Judge, officiating in that

capacity at Tokyo and Kobe; was appointed assistant Chief Secretary in Department of Justice, 1880, an:1

became President of the Hiroshima

Appeal Court in the same year; sent to Europe to investigate judicial systems, 1836, and was absent from Japan two years; during absence was appointed Judge of Supreme Court and

Director of the Civil and Criminal

Affairs Bureau; upon return to

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Japan was also appointed a inem- ber of the Law Code Investigation Committee; President of the Tokyo Appeal Court, 1890; Attorney General in the Supreme Com t, 1891 ; appointed member of House of Peers, 1891 ; Vice-Minister for Home Affairs, 1894 and 1898; President

of the Court of Administrative

Litigation, 1899-1906; given present portfolio, 1903. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

KOMATSUBARA, Yeltaro (TOKYO),

Member of the House of Peers; b.

1952, at Okayama. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 1881; afterwards Secretary of Legation at Berlin; Governor of Nagasaki-ken, &c.; Vice-Minister of Justice and Vice-

Minister of Home Affairs, Nov., 1898-Sept., 1990; later joined the staff of the "Osaka Mainichi "

Shimbun, but resigned in 1903.

Address: Tokyo, Japan.

K'O MENG-O, Lieut-General (HSI-AN- FU), Chinese Banuerman. Tartar- General, Shensi, 1875; do., Kansu, May, 1876; do., Shensi, 1878; Officer of Guards; Tartar-General,

Sui-yuan, Shensi, July, 1884 ; degraded three steps and trans- ferred, Jan., 1895; Deputy Lieut.-

General, Border White Banner Corps, 1900; do., Hsi-an-fu, Jan.,

1991.

fessor of

KOMOTO, Dr. Jujiro (Tokyo), Pro- Imperial University, Tokyo; b. Aug., 1859. Educ.: Ger- many and Austria, 1SS5-89. Address:

Tokyo, Japan.

KOMURA, Baron Jutaro (Tokyo), Minister Plenipotentiary to the