KATO

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KATO , TAKA-AKIRA (1859- ), Japanese statesman, was born at Nagoya, and commenced

life

LIFE

as an employee in the

great

GREAT

firm of Mitsu Bishi. In 1887 he became private secretary to

Count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Okuma,. minister of state for foreign affairs. Subsequently he served as director of a bureau in the finance department, and from 1894 to 1899 he represented his country at the

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

of St James. He received the

portfolio

PORTFOLIO (shortened form of Porto folio, adapted from the Ital. portafogli, portare, to carry, and fogli, sheets or leaves of paper, Lat. folium, leaf)

of foreign affairs in the fourth Ito cabinet (1900-1901), which remained in

office

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

only a few months. Appointed again to the same position in the Saionji cabinet (1906), he resigned after a brief

interval

INTERVAL

, being opposed to the nationalization of the private railways, which measure the cabinet approved. He then remained without

office

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

until 1908, when he again accepted the post of

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

in London. He was decorated with the grand

cross

CROSS

of St Michael and St George, and earned the reputation of being one of the strongest men among the junior statesmen.

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