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...most momentous crises she has faced since the restoration of the Imperial House. The deaths within the month of two of her ablest statesmen of the old school,--Prince Yamagata and Marquis Okuma; the nationwide tenseness over the trial of the late Premier Hara's assassin in Tokio, have thrown into sharp relief the vast struggle going on beneath the surface in Japan...
...Fisher, who is a graduate of California as well as of the University, has been connected with the Young Men's Christian Association since 1896. He is at present Secretary for Japan on the international Committee. His long residence in Tokio has given Mr. Fisher a wide knowledge of Japanese affairs, of which he is a keen student...
...propaganda? Will junk barons buy up newspapers to preach the cause of international peace? Will second-hand dynamo lobbies try to put over disarmament jokers on Parliaments and Congresses? Will venal correspondents and news agencies flood the press of the world with fakes about peace banquets in Tokio, international meetings in London, interracial resolutions of friendship in Rome, all provocative of unity among the nations and designed to build up the scraping industry? More power to them! -New York Evening Post...
...British method and the Japanese method. Questions were raised that could not be answered without reference to facts not obtainable in this country. For example, the date for the withdrawal of Japanese post offices from Chinese soil could not be fixed until the Japanese delegates could get from Tokio and official estimate of the time it would take to make the necessary transfer...
...Japanese by birth but came to America early in his life and has received degrees from both Oberlin and Johns Hopkins. After his education in the United States he returned to Japan and there became a professor in Wasada University and in the Higher Commercial Colleges of Tokio. In 1895 he was appointed secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs, and in 1898 he became a commissioner of the Formesan government to India, Persia, Turkey, and China...