Tokio, Mar. 29.
Marquis T. Okuma, who is now the head of the Okuma family, has offered to give the residence of the deceased Japanese statesman to Waseda University. It is understood that the University authorities have decided to accept the gift and to keep the residence in_a state of repair.
The residence, which is now 2% years old, is valued at about Y.2,000,000 and around it is woven much of the history of the Meiji Restoration, for it was there that many of the meetings of the men who played so prominent a part that era. were held.
The university officials have decided to throw the building open to the public as a tribute to the democratic spirit of the man who did so much for democracy in Japan.—Reuter.
A tomb, believed to be 1,200 years old, has just been unearthed in a suburb of Yokohama.
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