Mr. Hamaguchi is the sixth Jatasman to be the victim tack by a murderously inclined fellow countryman, those having shared the same fate being Marquis Okubo (Premier), Ure Morn (Minister of Education), Marquis Okuma (Mi eign Affairs), Mr. H of the Tokyo Municipal Ascembly). and Mr. Hara (Premier), lar link between Mr. Hara and Mr. Hamaguchi is that in each case the assassin selected Tokyo Railway Station for his desperate deed. It will be remembered that Mr. Hara was stad-bed to death on practically the same spot in the station in 1922, Born in April, 1870, Mr. Hamafuchi graduated from the Law Department of Tokyo Imperial Uni-y in 1895, when he entered the Ministry of Finance, He was subsequently Chief of the Internal Revenue Department of Yamagata Prefecture and of the Monopoly Bureau, Secretary to the Ministry, of Finance, Vice-Minister of Communications, and Vice-Minister of, Finance. Appointed Minister Home Affairs by the late Premier Kato in 1925, he served as Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of Mr. Wakatsuki, who succeeded Count, Kato, until its dissolution in April 1927 after the rejection by the Privy Council of the Emergency Imperial Ordinance respecting the Bank of Taiwan.
He retired temporarily from the Baron G. Tanaka was asked by poliinl limelight "when, the' ita] Throne to form a Cabinet.
Upon the resignation of Baron Tanaka in July, 1929, and at the height of the national agitation over the manner in which the Kellogg Pact had been signed by the Japan: exe delegates (allegedly in the name the people and not that of the Throne) and the so-called "Mukden Tragedy" (the murder of Marshal Chang Tso-lin), he was called upon to shoulder the responsibility acting as chief advisor to the Emperor.
Leader of the MiRteito (People' Government) Party, which Wwas founded in 1927 and which came into Bower upon the resignation of the Premiership by Baron Tanaka, Mr. Hamaguchi is an advocate of a milder Chinese policy, economy of state expenditure, and' further adjust ments of taxation. Of Into his party has been declining in strength due to national dissatisfaction with his attitude toward unemployment and relief of financial burdens,
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