Japan will probably be _represented in the forthcoming Five Power Naval Limitations Confer-
Jence in London bygone of he diplomats and one of her ablest sailor-statesmen. The diplomat is Tsuneo Matsudaira, Ambassador in London, and the sailor' Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, Minister of the Navy. The calibre of the two men, who will be in the Japanese delegation, is proof of the importance which Tokyo attaches to the conference. Both are known for their conservative stability and their broad knowledge of international Admiral Takarabe has served as Minister of the Navy in five ca-bluets, first coming into the government when he succeeded the late Fleet Admiral Tomosaburo Kato, chief Japanese delegate the first Washington naval conference, when Admiral Kato vacated the post of navy minis retaining the Takarabe remained as navy minister in the succeeding cabinets under Admiral Count Yamamoto, his father-in-law, the second Kato cabinet and the Wakatsuki Cabinet. He again assumed the portfolio t year when the premier, Mr, Hamapuchi, organized his Minseito Party government after the fall of the Tanaka Cabinet.
Takarabe was born in Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu, the southernmost of the main group of th islands of Japan, in April 1867, jo married a daughter of the grand old man of the Japanese navy," Admiral Yamamoto, and served through the: lower. naval ranks, distinguishing himself in the
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