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

Rly. Co. in its inauguration; has held present position since 1990. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

TAKAHIRA, Sir Kogoro (TOKYO), K.C.M.G.; Minister at Washingtou ;

b. Jan., 1854, in Iwate-ken. Ap- pointed translator in Foreign Office,

1876; Legation Secretary at Wash- ington, 1879-1884; removed to Seoul,

1884; Consul at Shanghai, 1887-1890; Consul-Gen. at New York, 1891; Minister Resident at the Hague, 1892; Minister at Rome, 1894;

transferred to Vienna; Vice-Minis-

ter of Foreign Affairs, 1899; Minis-

ter at Washington, 1900; was ap- pointed junior Peace Plenipoten.

tiary, 1905; er. K.C.M.G., May, 1906. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

TAKAMICHI,

Takeo (HONGKONG), Manager of local branch Yoko- hama Specie Bank; b. 1881. Educ.: At Marquis Hosokawa's Eng. Sch. under Capt. L. L. Janes. The Saigo Rebellion in 1877 interrupted his education as he joined the Commis- sariat of the Imp. Army as private attaché to Baron H. Noda, then in

charge of Commissariat of second division; retained this position during the war; in 1879, was entrusted by the Baron to the late. Mr. Y. Iwasaki (founder of the Mitsu Bishi S.S. Company) to be educated at his private Commercial Sch.; was in the service of Mitsu Bishi and Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 1881-93; joined Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., in 1894, and has held important positions at Shanghai, Bombay, and Tokyo before being promoted to position of Manager at Hongkong ; is of a family famous

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since 1200 A.D., the successive heads

of the family being entitled from

1200 to 1870, to be ruler of the

village of Takamichi, in province of Higo, Kyushu. Address: Yoko- hama Specie Bauk, Hongkong.

TAKASAKI, Baron Masakaze (Tок- YO), Privy Councillor ; b. July, 183€, at Satsuma. Took part in Restora- tion; despatched early in Meiji era to Europe on official mission; is

chief of Poetry Section at Court. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

TAKASHIMA, Viscount Tomonosuke

(TOKYO), Privy Councillor, Lieut.- Gen. (retired); b. Nov., 1814, at Satsuma. Appointed Colonel, 1874; Major-Gen., 1877; took active part in Civil War as Brigade Comman- der; Commander of Kumamoto

Army Division, 1883, and later at Osaka; Minister of War twice,

1891-1892, and 1896-1897; was Minis- ter of short-lived Colonial Dept. created after Japan-China War but soon abolished; created Viscount, 1884. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

TAKATA, Sanai (TOKYO), Doctor of Law., Vice-President of Waseda Private Univ.; b. March, 1860, at Tokyo. Educ.: Imp. Univ., Tokyo. Appointed Director of Commercial Bureau, Foreign Office, 1896-1897; Senior Councillor of Education, 1898; has repeatedly been returned. to Lower House; is a leading member of Progressive Party. Ad dress: Tokyo, Japan.

TALBOT, Captain Henry Lynch

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(KUALA LUMPUR), Chief Commis- sioner of Police, Federated Malay

States; b. Oct. 2, 1863, e. s. of late

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