Word: goh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of the Tokyo Electric Light Co. is Baron Seinosuke Goh, 63, chairman of the directorate. He was one of the young men whom the government sent to Germany and Belgium to study economics, international law and politics. Upon completion of his studies he entered the Emperor's department of Agriculture and Commerce. But he soon left government service for business. He is president of the Toyo Iron Mfg. Co., a director of the Teikoku Commercial Bank, and an adviser to Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Mail Steamship...
...young Shohachi Wakao, 45. His natal family was the Hirose. But by an intelligent Japanese custom whereby powerful families maintain succession of their primacies, he was adopted (1896) into the great Wakao family of bankers, and later reverently married Kiyono, the daughter of Tamizo Wakao. Like Chairman Baron Seinosuke Goh, President Shohachi Wakao has legal training, is a member of the Japanese house of peers, and holds several corporate directorships...