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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...
Despite the august quality thus conferred upon these elders, Osaka's chatty Mainichi could not resist chattering that neither Mr. Takahashi, an old fox, now Finance Minister for the seventh time, nor Baron Yamamoto, an astute banker and Mitsubishi executive, has any real need of a cane. Chirped Mainichi: "Baron Yamamoto weighs 155 Ib. and has rosy cheeks. His hobbies are net fishing and archery, and he attributes his health to these...
...Finance Minister Takahashi weighs about 138 lb., and though he impaired his health last year he is now sound and very energetic. He has had about 50 injections of hormones since last year, and he has a great liking for broiled eels. Though he was formerly very fond of sake, he is now a total abstainer...
...Japan's militarists, the Empire's peace-minded politicians last week tried to upset the jingo Cabinet of Premier Admiral Okada by exploding a bomb of scandal. They blew up the previous Cabinet by the same tactics, proved embezzlement on "subordinates" of sly old Finance Minister Takahashi (TIME, July 16). Although the old fox is again Finance Minister, for the seventh time, and although the new Cabinet is again riding them, the timid but persistent politicians last week maneuvered blunt War Minister General Hayashi into serious admissions...