Rly. Co. in its inauguration; has held present position since 1900. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
TAKAHIRA, Sir Kogoro ( TOKYO), K.C.M.G.; Minister at Washington; b. Jan., 1854, in Iwate-ken. Appointed translator in Foreign Office, 1876; Legation Secretary at Washington, 1879-1884; removed to Seoul, 1884; Consul at Shanghai, 1887-1890; Consul-Gen, at New York, 1891: Minister Resident at the Hague, 1892; Minister at Rome, 1894; transferred to Vienna; Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1899; Minister at Washington, 1900; was appointed junior Peace Plenipotentiary, 1905; cr. K.C.M.G., May, 1906. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
TAKAMICHI, Takeo (HONGKONG), Manager of local branch Yokohama Specie Bank; b. 1881. Educ.: At Marquis Hosokawa's Eng. Seh, under Capt. L. L. Janes. The Saigo Rebellion in 1877 interrupted his education as he joined the Commissariat of the Imp. Army as private attach to Baron H. Noda, then in charge of Commissariat of second division; retained this position during the war; in 1879, was entrusted by the Baron to the late Mr. Y. Iwasaki (founder of the Mitsu Bishi S.S. Company) to be educated at his private Commercial Sch.; was in the service of Mitsu Bishi and Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 1881-93; joined Yokohama Specie.Bank, Ltd., in 1894, and has held important positions at Shanghai, Bombay, and Tokyo before being promoted to position of Manager at Hongkong; is of a family famous since 1200 A.D., the successive heads of the family being entitled from 1200 to 1870, to be ruler of the village of Takamichi, in province of Higo, Kyushu. Address: Yokohama Specie B:xuk, Hongkong.
TAKASAKI, Baron Masakaze (TOKYO), Privy Councillor; b. July, 1836, at Satsuma. Took part in Restoration; despatched early in Meiji era to Europe on official mission; is chief of Poetry Section at Court. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
TAKASHIMA, Viscount Tomonosuke (TOKYO), Privy Councillor, Lieut.-Gen. (retired); b. Nov., 1844, at Satsuma. Appointed Colonel, 1874; Major-Gen., 1877; took active part in Civil War as Brigade Commander; Commander of Kumamoto Army Division, 1883, and later at Osaka; Minister of War twice, 1891-1892, and 189o-1897; was mister of short-lived Colonial Dept. created after Japan-China War but soon abolished; created Viscount, 1884. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
TAKATA, Sanai (TOKYO), Doctor of Law., Vice-President of Waseda Private Univ.; b. March, 1860, at Tokyo. Educ.: Imp. Univ., Tokyo. Appointed Director of Commercial Bureau, Foreign Office, 1896-1897; Senior Councillor of Education, 1898; has repeatedly been returned to Lower House; is a leading member of Progressive Party. Address; Tokyo, Japan.
TALBOT, Captain Henry Lynch ( KUALA LUMPUR), Chief Commissioner of Police, Federated Malay States; b. Oct. 2, 1863, e. s. of late
