The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-07-20
SHIPPING AGENTS
GREET Mr.. ASANO
n ON his ARRIVAL
President of Togo Kisen Kaisha
q Entertained At Luncheon
a.. At Country Club, ..s
4I .'aaS w-
HE EXPRESSES DELIGHT -.
AT. CORDIAL RECEPTION
Distinguished Visitor Is En-
Route To Mainland With
Wife and Daughters

A distinguished visitor to Honolulu
yesterday was Soichiro Asano, presi-
dent and majority stakeholder Of the
Togo Kisen Kaisha. With Mrs. Asano
and the two Misses ASano, he arrived
in the T. X. X. steamer Tenyo Mafu,
and he and his family will sail in the
same steamer at ten O'Clock this morn
ing for San Francisco. 4
They will spend two months in the
States, seeing the Panama Pacific ex'
position at San Francisco and continu.
ing to New York, returning to the
Orient by way Of Honolulu. The trip
primarily is vacation.
MIR. Asano Is known as the "Roths-
child of Japan" He Is a multimill-
ionaire.
A feature of his stay here was an
informal luncheon given by Edward ID.
Tenney, president of Castle & Cooke,
ltd. the Honolulu agent for the Togo
Kisen Kaisha. This was at the Coun.
try CLUB, and there were sixteen
guests.
Distinguished Party Present
Those present were Mr.. Asano;, his
secretary, c. Ota; s. Awoki, local
manager of the Yokohama Specie
Bank; II. Arita, Japanese consul; Mr..
Tenney; Fred l.. Waldron, president
of the Chamber of Commerce of Hon
olulu; DR.. f.. E. Trotter, surgeon in
command of the public health service;
Malcolm A. Franklin, collector of Gus
toms; R. l.. Halsey, inspector in
charge of the immigration service; F.
W. Klebahn, secretary of H. Hackfeld
& CO., former agent for the Togo
Kisen Kaisha before Castle 4 Cooke
became agent, and agent for the Pa.
cifc Mail Steamship Company; John
II. Drew, manae,r of the shipping de.
partment of Castle & Cooke; c. P.
Morse, general freight agent of the
American Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany; Raymond c. Brown, secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce of Hon
olnlu; D. YOnejnra, president of the
JAPANESE Merchants Association; X.
YOmamoto, secretary of the Japanese
Merchants Association, and Mayor
John @. Lane. Captain 8. Togo. of the
THnvo Maru was unable to attend.
Cordial Reception Appreciated
Mr.. Asano does not speak English,
but he addressed the guests briefly
through an interpreter, expressing his
appreciation of the courtesies shown him
and of the welcome extended him by
Mayor Lane, Mr.. Waldron and Mr..
Tenney. Mr.. Waldron and Mr.. Brown
recalled having met Mr.. Asano in Japan
ten years ago, and Mr.. .Tenney spoke
of the pleasure he had had in being
the representative in. Honolulu Of Mr..
AsanO's company. Mr.. Klebahn knew
Mr.. Asano from Of old, having met
him about ten years ago on his last
visit to Honolulu, when H. Hackfeld &
Co. was agent for the Togo Kisen Kai.
sha. Mr.. Yanakura also spoke briefly.
Mr.. Asano was born in Etchu in
1913, and arrived in Toxic with nothing
in 1871, and from Toxic he went to
Yokohama, supporting himself by hawk,
ing cheap viands. He bought from the
Yokohama Gas Works coal tar and
other refuses then unutilized, and 30
laid the foundation for his fortune.
-Four years after he went to Toxic he
bought the cement works at Fukagawa
and began to produce the brand OF ee,
ment that bears, his name, In lY3
he started a tank oil business, and two
years later, was one of the principal
promoters of the Tovo Kisen Kaisha.
Leader Of Modern Japan
He is a leader of modern Japan
both within the empire and in interna
tional commercial ways. We, He is as
truly self made as Andrew Carnegie
or John d. Rockefeller or any one of
several American ,millionaires, whose
career his own resembles much. he
virtually is the owner of the Togo XII.
sen Kaisha, besides managing its af.
fairs. He is considered to have made
the company what il is, one Of the
great lines Of the world. / r