Tokyo, Oct. 11.
Viscount Shibusawa once cried: "Away with the Barbarian! when the irresistible tide of Occidentalism swept across the wi expanse of the Pacific, stirring into action by its impact, a serene, sleeping Japan sunk in self-sufficiency and Oriental lethargy.
To-day, he has nothing else' but penedietions for the blessing that came in disguise from the We and, learning the needed lessons, Tooks back on years of service the commercial world of Japan with pardonable pride; for he is truly' Sapan's, greatest business baron whom Japan owes the cre of her present efficient and up-to-date business system. 5 Bent by years, for he i togenarian,- Viscount Eiichi busavra, the nerve-centre of Japan': commerce and industry, is to-day enjoying a deserved rest in the twi-Tight of his life, but so great is position in the financial and indastrial world of Japan even to-day that, although he re ness' a decade ago, nothing of national or inter is undertaken uni s he gives. his assent.
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