The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-22
NESTOR Of THE
JAPANESE DIET
Mr.. lnOuye Returning Home
From an important
Mission.

1t was a great evening for the Japa-
nese of Hiroshima. The most eminent
man of their prefecture was their guest
last evening at the Shin Ryu Tel, a
new Japanese restaurant and club
house facing the river at Vineyard
street.
Kakugaro Inouye, arrived by the
Nippon Maru yesterday afternoon from
highly important and successful
business trip. He has secured the CO.
operation and partnership of Arm
strong & Co., the great ordnance and
ship building concern. and Vickers the
manufacturers of the vickers-M Maxim
guns, in a great coal mining, steel
making and steamship building enter
prise in Japan. Mr.. Inouye has repre-
sented the Hiroshima prefecture in the
Japanese Imperial Parliament from it's
first session, and is today, the only
man in Parliament with an unbroken
succession of elections. This has given
him great political prestige and ir-
fluence, and he is regarded as one Of
the most influential politicians Tin
Japan.
The Hiroshima men in Honolulu
made Mr.. Inouye their guest imme-
diately upon his arrival here. The
banquet at the Shin Ryu Tel was ar
ranged and around the banquet board
gathered nearly fifty Japanese from
1a1
Consul General Mkt Saito was also
a guest, and made a pleasing speech
recounting the increase in numbers
and advancement in material condition.
He explained the reason why Japanese
children in addition to being sent to
the government schools were also sent
to Japanese schools. He said that be-
cause of the disparity of women to
men among the Japanese, there was
not the home influence and the home
environment for the Japanese children
that there was in Japan and as there
should be. Therefore if the japanese
children were sent only to the govern
ment schools, they would lack much of
that culture and education which
comes from good home environment,
and it was to attempt to supply this
that the Japanese schools were started
and maintained, as well as to give the
Japanese children correct knowledge
and use of their mother tongue.
Mr.. Inouye in addressing the people
from his own prefecture, said they had
more of interest to tell him Of condi-
tions here than he had to tell them
that was of value. Years ago he had
been editor of the Jill Shimbun, the
most influential newspaper at that
time in Toxic. He wrote articles ad-
vising his countrymen to emigrate to
the United States. The proprietor of
the paper told him he ought instead
of writing about emigrating to emil
CRATE himself, and with twenty seven
others he went to California where
they secured land and began opera
tions. Impressed with the opportuni-
ties he saw he returned to Japan to |
on returning he was sent to jail by !
he Japanese government for political |
and kept there some time. On |
being released, he ehtered parliament, /
and thus he did not return to Califor- /
lia, until on his present trip. Then /
lie met some of his old comrades and t
vas glad to know that the opportuni-
les he had seen had proved real ones.
In Japan he had interested himself
n the Industrial development of the
country. He had begun at the bot
ON, and had worked up. He is now
he managing director of his company
Which is the largest of its kind in
apan. The capital of the concern is
81, 200, 900 yen. The English whom he
ad interested in the enterprise win
ut in 20,0G0,000 yen more. They will
ordnance of all kinds,
abroad material and steamships. Such
n enterprise would not have been
ossible before the war with China
nd the war with Russia. It was
leans of utilizing the experience of
reat Britain with the industry of
apan.
Throughout tie United states he had
'und the warIlest hospitality to the !
apanese, and the San Francisco
ouble was but local and a minor
fair.
Mr.. s. Sheba of the Jiyu Shimbun
ade a pleasing address in which he
Ilogized the Hiroshima people of
hom his wife was one. Other ad- t
'esses were made by DR.. Katsanuma $
Id Mr.. KaWahara, who spoke for the :
cal Hiroshima merchants. +
Mr.. Inouye is reckoned one of the r
Ost eloquent speakers of the Seiyu- a
i party which looks on Marquis Ito r
its head, and of which Premier
ionji is a member. u
Mr.. Inouye will start on round of K
,htseeing this morning at 6 o'clock t,
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