He is very much alive to-day, not merely existing, but with "his strength and faculties s0 restored that he presides at important coun-is of State. On him will depend, in large measure, the nature of the next Ministry that will wield power in this Empire.
The Japanese generally believe that Katsn effected the cure, Katey, resolved into ordinary terms understandable to the average Iny-man, consists of a method of resuscitating the nerve centres in certain parts of the human body, and, by stimulating these nerves, bringing about a reaction of the heart.
According to those who believe that Katsu reclaimed Prince Mataukato, the Prince was mot dead, to the well-known Japanese belief death does not act in until Believers in Katsw do not accept the possibility of death by shock. The reported deaths by shock in the Great War have merely shocked them. This belief is also held by the "Army and) Navy, Tam in a position to state' that in neither Services is any provision made for death by shock. Tt is needless to add that this is not the result of any short-sightedness, for Japan has certainly taken care not. to lose any of the lessons her wars and other wars have been able to teach, The secret of Katou is till Jealously guarded, but is said to be applied with fair frequency in Fiucjiten places and in sumo encounters where it not infrequently happens that persons are thrown down with such violence as to result in severe stunning, sometimes leading to a temporary cessation of cardiac action.
What brought Prince Matsukata back to vigour and activity from what his physicians regarded asa death bed? Was it Christian Science or was it Kateu? Tokio is puzzling} ts brains to find out, but has not yet been successful in' reaching a definite conclusion.
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