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TAI HUNG-TZ'U (PEKING), native of Kwangtung; metrop. graduate, 1876. Asst. Supervisor, Instruction, May, 1899: Sub-Chancellor, Grand Secretariat, Dec., 1900; senior Vice- Presdt., Board of Punishments, Feb., 1901; junior, do., Board of Revenue, Feb., 1902; sent abroad to investigate foreign governments, 1905-6; accorded order of Black

Eagle (Russia) May, 1906.

T'AI-PU (PEKING), Vice-President of

Censorate; Imperial Clansmar;

provincial graduate. Sub-Director,

Court of State Ceremonial, July,

1996; Director, Court of Imperial Stud, spring, 1901; Acting Director, Court of Sacrificial Worship, Jan., 1905; Vice-president, Censorate,

Jan., 1905.

TAJIRI, Baron Inajiro (TOKYO),

Doctor of Law, Chief of Board of

Audit; b. June, 1850, at Kyoto. Educ.: Yale Univ., U.S.A. Appoint- ed Councillor of Finance Dept., 1881; later, Director of Loan and other Bureaux; was twice Vice-

Minister of Finance, 1892-1897, and

1898-1901; is teacher at Imp. Univ., Tokyo, and other institutions;

created Baron, 1896. Publications: Several works on political economy. Ad Iress: Tokyo, Japan.

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TAKAGI, Baron Kenkwan (TOKYO)

Dr. of Med.; b., Satsuma, Sept., 1849. Educ.: England. Was Naval Surgeon until 1892 having held post of Surgeon-General; during his tenure of office, the barley-rice mixed ration was adopted on his suggeon in place of rice alone for fleet as a preventive against

beri-beri, which had prevailed extensively among men and officers, and this provision succeeded in putting a stop to this disease; on retiring from service, with help of persons charitably disposed, organised Tokyo Charity Hospital, one of most perfectly arranged medical institutions in Japan; several years later opened the Tokyo

Hospital as his own private enter- prise; has been Member of House

of Peers since 1892; er. Baron, 1905, Address: Tokyo, Japan.

TAKAHASHI,

Shinkichi

(TOKYO),

President of Hypothec Bank of Japan; Member of House of Peers; b. Aug., 1847, at Satsuma. Appointed Secretary of Treasury, 1874, has

been Chief of Customs at Nagasaki, Kobe, Osaka, etc.; Consul at New York;

recalled to be Burean

Director in Dept. of Agric. and Comm.; was President of Kyushn

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