"Mr. Kozo Sugimura, former as-societe professor in a Tokyo university, arrived here on Tuesday to j assume the post of secretary-general of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the local Japanese press reported yesterday Prospects of expansion of local Japanese commercial and industrial enterprises necessitated the appointment of an expert to the post of secretary-general of the Chamber, it was explained.
Mr. Sugimura arrived in the s. Nagasaki Maru. which brought 428 passengers to Shanghai the papers said. Among the passengers were Mrs. David Fraser, wife of the correspondent of "The Times," Lieut.- Col Naokata Utsunomiya, of the Tokyo War Office, and others.
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