Word: inazo
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...prince is being deposed. On Nov. 1, he will be replaced on 10,000 yen notes (about $40) by a more modern figure, Yukichi Fukuzawa, an important figure in the Westernization of Japan in the 19th century. On 5,000 yen bills, where Shotoku had also ruled, goes Inazo Nitobe, an official in the old League of Nations. The new face on a 1 ,000 yen note is that of a newspaperman and novelist, Soseki Natsume, who died...
Died. Dr. Inazo Ota Nitobe, 71. "Father of Japanese Liberalism," editor of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi, onetime (1919-27) undersecretary general of the League of Nations; after an operation following pneumonia, in Victoria, B. C. Educated in the U. S. and Europe, he married a Philadelphia girl, returned to Japan to become a university president and an eloquent apostle of internationalism...
...dozen Japanese, led by browbeaten Liberal Peer Inazo Nitobe, and including an intransigent retired Major-General named Yasunosuke Sato...
...seemed clear that economic conflicts do not in themselves cause war. Taboo was any open discussion of the violent Sino-Japanese emotional and political hatred. But in the corridors war was talked and especially titillating was "the coming war between Japan and America." Japan's peace-loving Inazo Nitobe, who might be assassinated back home if he said the wrong thing, forced the Canadian press to deny that he had ever predicted a Japanese-Russian...
Sons Astor and Rockefeller made themselves obsequiously useful as assistant secretaries respectively to the British and U. S. delegations. Son MacDonald, himself a delegate, hobnobbed with the chief delegates: Jerome Davis Greene of the U. S. (partner, Lee, Higginson & Co.); Baron Hailsham of Britain (recently Lord Chancellor); Dr. Inazo Nitobe of Japan (onetime Under-Secretary of the League of Nations); Dr. David Z. T. Yui of China (confidential spokesman of the Nationalist Government...
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