OBITUARY.
PRINCE OKUMA, JAPAN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, TOKXO, January 6. Prince Okuma is dead.—A. and N.Z. Cable. I [The Marquis Shigcnobu Okuma, Prime Minister of Japan 1914/-15, was born at Saga in 1838, and lived in Toloio. He was one of the founders of modern government in Japan, and also the founder of the Progressive Party, Waseda/ University (Tokio), and Japanese Women’s University. He was Finance Minister ‘'-1869-1881, Foreign Minister 1888-1889, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce 1896-1897, and Prime Minister and Foreign Minister 1898. He was a keen horticulturist.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18448, 9 January 1922, Page 5
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