The Archive · 1926

JAPANESE KING OF MADAME, BUTTERFLY DEBTORS AGAIN

One Time Small Speculator Who 'The Unmarried Wife: Inequality'

-Swindled Japan's Banks of Japanese Law: Girls'

4 of Yen 70,000,000

Demand for Redress nom 4 Conmesronvext Fnom Our Own Comsssroxoenr Tokyo, July 17.

Tokyo, July 20.

"he ease of ishii, the king debtors they call him, but in reality ranking high among' the princes of swindlers, is one of the extremely! Uiffieult probler: s inthe analysis of this. country seeking some—exact guide to our faith or the inck of it in the future, At the time, when the story was ripe, Ishii was discovered to be a bankrupt and his debts amounted te scrae 70,000,000 yen. His assets so far as one can find out, were nothing, except worthless deposit ies in land overvalued some thousand or two per centum, This was long before the disaster of 1923 which shook Tokyo and Yokohama down to the tune of several thousand millions of yen. Anyhow Ishii, who up toa short time sprang into the! public was a small gamble even a "picker" in the Osaka stock exchange, shook Osaka, Tokyo, London and New York, indeed, he disturbed foreign "financial circles" much more than he disturbed the bankers of Japan and the bankers of Western centries were disturbed Decause the banks of Japan and more especially the big banks had "accommodated" Ishii with some 70,000,000 of yen before they woke Up. Some:

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