Word: korekiyo
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When a Japanese artist bedded with a humble parlormaid in the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the auspicious result was Japan's greatest politico-financier, His Excellency Korekiyo Takahashi. Last week Finance Minister Takahashi explained that 10,000,000,000 yen is about the limit of internal Government bond issues which Japan can conceivably absorb, and she has now absorbed 8,650,000,000. Mr. Takahashi based his calculations on the fact that Japan's national wealth is about 110,000,000,000 yen and her national income about...
More select than Japan's peerage is her caneage-those who are privileged to carry a cane in the presence of Divine Emperor Hirohito. Last week Tokyo had titillating intimations from the Imperial Household Ministry that Octogenarians Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi and Baron Tatsuo Yamamoto will this month be raised to the caneage...
...Since the assassination squatting has been taboo, with Premier Saito using chairs and tables in the new style rooms of the Official Residence. Last week Premier Okada went enthusiastically back to squatting. He called back to their portfolios the outstanding members of the Saito Cabinet except famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi in whose department the bribe scandal had occurred. By no means in disgrace, venerable Mr. Takahashi was able to slip in as the new Finance Minister his devoted henchman Mr. Sadanobu Fujii...
Once again Premier Saito's Cabinet seemed about to collapse under him. His veteran Finance Minister, Viscount Korekiyo Takahashi, Hideo's Cabinet boss, had a resignation ready in his top drawer. Premier Saito told newshawks: "It's one damned thing after another...
...went to the Army and Navy, an alltime peacetime high. The Army got 450,000,000 yen ($135,000,000), the Navy 488,000,000 yen ($146,400,000). Hardly a murmur was raised against this gigantic bill for war weapons and men to use them. Indeed, Foreign Minister Korekiyo Takahashi was credited with a victory in preventing the budget from going up another 400,000,000 yen as the Army and Navy originally wanted...