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...Government, investigating its affairs, indicted its Governor, Imperial Rayon's president and eight other officers on charges of having sold Imperial Rayon stock to themselves and friends below the market price. The trail of corruption wound into the Ministry of Finance and to the Vice Minister himself, Hideo Kuroda. But Kuroda, a career man, not a politician, was a member of the First Order of Merit and hence above suspicion. The Government was obliged to ask and get the Emperor's permission to prosecute him. The police called meritorious Hideo, sat him down for questioning, locked...
...Japan is now in the midst of one of the greatest crisis of her existence since 1860, and the way in which she emerges from it will determine whether or not she will continue in her rapid march of industrial and political progress," said Hideo Kishimoto, instructor in Japanese, in an interview yesterday...
...power and all success to Hideo Takahashi, TIME, Sept. i, but the nose-wiping campaign in Japan was actually conceived in 1912 by Frank Putney Haight, Waukesha, Wis., and Edward C. Jones, Portage, same state, both employed at that time on editorial staff of The Japan Advertiser...
...righteous and an upright man is Mr. Hideo Takahashi of Yamagata. Eight years ago he returned from the U. S. to the city of his birth with enough money to keep him in frugal comfort for the rest of his life. But Hideo Takahashi was not satisfied. Lacking great funds for great philanthropy, he yet wished to do something in his remaining years to express his thanks for the good things life had brought him, something to make life pleasanter for the citizens of Yamagata. He started on a campaign that soon won him the affectionate nickname of Nose Wiper...