Mr. Y. Akiba Appointed to Gumma Prefecture Mr. Yasuhiro Akiba, chief of the Political Section of the Japanese Consular Police, who was wounded in the bombing of the old Japanese Consular Police headquarters By Chinese aircraft in August 1937, left Shanghai at 9 o'clock yesterday morning in the inv. Tatsuta Maru for Japan. He has been appointed director of the Educational Affairs Bureau of the Gumma Prefectural Administration. Mr. Akiba was in Shanghai more than two years.
Also sailing for Japan on the same vessel was Mr. Masaji Yoshida, late chairman of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Shanghai and well known in banking circles as manager of the Mitsubishi Bank for many years. He has been appointed counsellor of the institution's main office in Tokyo.
Mr. Yusuke Tsurumi, Japanese M.P. and publicist, also sailed back io Japan in the Tatsuta Maru after a short visit to Shanghai with the announced purpose of studying the causes of anti-Japanese propaganda in the Settlement and the Concession. Mr. Tsurumi is the. elder brother of Mr. Ken Tsurumi, secretary of the Japanese Embassy here.
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