TAI HUNG-TZ'U (PEKING), native of Kwangtung; metrop. graduate, 1876. Asst. Supervisor, Instruction, May, 1899; Sub-Chancellor, Grand Secretariat, Dec., 1900;.senior Vice-Presdt., Board of Punishments, Feb., 1901; junior, do., Board of Revenue, Feb., 1902; sent abroad to investigate foreign governments, 1905-6; accorded order of Black Eagle (Russia) May, 1906.
T'AI-PU (PEKING), Vice-President of Censorate; Imperial Clansrcair; provincial graduate. Sub-Director, Court of State Ceremonial, July, 1896; Director, Court of Imperial Stud, spring, 1901; Acting Director, Court of Sacrificial Worship, Jan., 1905; Vice-president, Censorate, Jan., 1905.
TAJIRI. Baron Inajiro (TOKYO), Doctor of Law, Chief of Board of Audit; b. June, 1850, at Kyoto. Educ.: Yale Univ., U.S.A. Appointed Councillor of Finance Dept., 1881; later, Director of Loan and other Bureaux; was twice Vice-Minister of Finance, 1892-1897, and 1898-1901; is teacher at Imp. Univ., Tokyo, and other institutions; created Baron, 1896. Publications: Several works on political economy. Address: Tokyo. Japan.
TAKAGI, Baron Kenkwan ( TOKYO) Dr. of Med.; b., Satsuma, Sept., 1849. Educ.: England. Was Naval Surgeon until 1892 having held post of Surgeon-General; during his tenure of office, the barley-rice mixed ration was adopted on his suggestions in place of rice alone for Meet as a preventive against beri-beri, which hid prevailed extensively among men and officers, and this provision succeeded in putting a stop to this disease; on retiring from service, with help of persons charitably disposed, organised Tokyo Charity Hospital. one of most perfectly arranged medical institutions in Japan; several years later opened the Tokyo-Hospital as his own private enterprise; has been Member of House of Peers since 1892; cr. Baron, 1905. Address: Tokyo. Japan.
TAKAHASHI, Sninkichi (TOKYO), President of Hypothec Bank of Japan; Member of House of Peers; b. Aug., 1847, at Satsuma. Appointed Secretary of Treasury, 1874, has been Chief of Customs at Nagasaki, Kobe, Osaka, etc.; Consul at New York; recalled to be Bureau Director in Dept. of Agric and Cumm.; was President of Kyushu
