Man Who Never Learnt His Own Language Mis tite slowly ebbing before the progress of an incurable disease, an elderly Japanese, who does not speak hhix mother tongue, on March was slowly awaiting a death that holds no {error for him, Surrounded by two nephews and hhis Chinese wife, he is calmly spend= {ing his time in prayer at the Suzuki Hospital on Miller' Road, "Hongkew, the "Shanghai Nichi-Nichi" revealed on March 'Is Mr. Kyujiro Takagh, land owner and a prominent member of the Japanese Club and of the Naga sak Native Sons' Society, Brought to Shanghai when four years old, in 1870, by his. clder brother, Mr, Takoy! was educated by French' Catholic Fathers, Coming, from Shimabara, where Catholicism resisted repeated attempts at the ex:
mination of the religion launched!
the Tokugawa Shogunate, Mr. Tokagi was readily converted, Upon graduation from school, where he studied architecture, Mr. Takagi could speak six Tanguages—but no Japanese,
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