Osaka, Jan. 27.
The apparently authentic report tha Mr. Fusanosuke Kuhara, who recently returned from a semi-oficial visit to Moscow and Berlin, is to be for Foreign Affairs has caused a sensation in business circles here. Many persons treat the report jocularly.
For instance, one _well-known business man remarked:—"Kuhara is a jolly good fellow, with big) ideas—mostly too big for this little Empire." Others, half-believing, think the appointment will be "not, halt Mr, Kuhara is the owner of the Hitachi Copper Mine, one of the best in Japan, and also controls the Osaka Iron Works, a ship-building re of Osaka and 'a close personal friend of the Pre-jer, General Baron Tanaka, who is a fellow-provincial.
It is dificult to tell what sort of a Foreign Minister Mr. Kuhara would make. In personal appearance, he is more Japanese than the average modern Japanese, showing a predilection for wearing the: native kimono on all occasions, even. when travelling abroad—Reuter,
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