'Tokyo, June 20, With social wetter, in' addition to health, included among the affairs it will deal with, Japan's new projected ministry to-day assumed increased importance, Originally conceived to be a [ministry of Public Hygiene, the new department, according to a bill_now being drafted by the National Planning Board, will take on the addi tional characteristics of a labour ministry, Consicting of ten subdivisions, four of which are now within the Ministry fof Interior, another in the Ministry of Communications, and a sixth in the Cabinet, the "new department probably will be named the Ministry St Social Affeirs and. of Health Domei, Mr, Tsuguo Fujita, 52, brother str. Teugusi Fujits, a Japanese painter, was on June 18 awarded a degree of LL.D. by the Tokyo Imperial Univer. sity for his thesis on the history of military. science in Europe and America, Mr. Fujita served in the [Japanese War Omice as councillor between 1910 and 1934,
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