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...determine the policy of that department while himself holding the title of Finance Minister as a mere adornment to that of Premier. When the Katsura Government fell, he entered the House of Peers,* became Finance Minister. While serving in this post he associated himself with the great Viscount Kato, then Foreign Minister; and together they fostered the policy of bringing Japan into the War on the side of the Allies. Such is the status of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki, successor to his late friend and leader Premier Viscount Kato (TIME, Feb. 8). With the passing of Kato the strength...
...Japan's most exclusive millionaire country club. The late president of the club was Viscount Takaaki Kato, Premier of Japan, who recently died (TIME...
...When Admiral Kato died some two years ago (TIME, Sept. 3, 1923), the Nichi-Nichi, a newspaper owned by Viscount Takaaki Kato, remarked with asperity that as Premier "he was a disappointment."* Soon the Nichi-Nichi welcomed its owner as Premier (TIME, June 23, 1924). Since then he has held together his coalition government with an iron hand...
...Orphan Kato's career. After graduating from the Imperial Tokyo University, he became the personal secretary of the then Foreign Minister, Count Okuma, and gradually rose through numerous posts in the Finance and Foreign Ministries until he was appointed Minister and then Ambassador to Great Britain. It was he who signed with Sir Edward Grey the Anglo-Japanese compact which brought Japan into the War on the side of the Allies. During his career he served as Foreign Minister in three cabinets, and was often referred to as "the least sympathetic of Japanese statesmen toward the U. S. exclusion policy...
Died. Viscount Takaaki Kato, Premier of Japan; at Tokyo, following an attack of influenza...