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...Cabinet officers form no more than a decorative background of gold lace. Since last February Japan's Navy Minister has been Admiral Mitsuniasa Yonai, or more formally Yoniuchi-a descendant of the samurai, member of the blue-blooded Satsuma clan and grandson of the extremely wealthy Baron Kentaro Okuma, developer of the South Manchuria Railway...
...days later 65,000 fans, among them Ambassador and Mrs. Grew, watched the opening game in which Tokyo University alumni (there are no professional baseballers in Japan) batted for the Empire, after Marquis Okuma, president of the Japan Baseball League, pitched the first ball. When the Babe hit only a single, though his team won 17-to-1, Japanese sportsmen politely said that it must be because Meiji Stadium is so very, very large and their fielders had stood so very, very far back to catch all the Bambino's terrific deliveries. Next day Mr. Ruth again hit only...
...Genro is a political institution without Western precedent. Possessing no constitutional authority but politically active until 1922, it then consisted of the four patriarchs who helped frame the Constitution of 1889?Marshal Prince Yamagata, Prince Saonji, Prince Matsukata, Marquis Okuma. No political move of any importance was made by the Emperor without consulting the Elder Statesmen. When their great age made traveling to the Palace difficult, Imperial messengers were sent to ask their advice. Prince Kimmochi Saonji, now 80 (he was born in the year of the California Gold Rush) is the last survivor. So great is his influence still...
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...
...would rightly be regarded as a fool; one active worker would be of more value to the cause than a thousand mute inhabitants of the grave. Yet in Japan the illogical and unknown hero is now to be interred in a military cemetery where lie the bodies of Marquis Okuma and of General Nogi, the hero of the Russo-Japanese...