The Washington herald., 1921-09-18

buddhist influence which made her the chatte
and slave Of man. but who has taken hold Of the in
dustpal conditions and mastered them.
With the industrialism OF Japan, new
woman has come forth-a woman who has not only
liberated herself from the uggernaut of Buddhist in
frence which made her the cbatel and slave of man
but who has taken hold Of the new industrial con-
ditons and mastered them.
There in Japan today more women
who be called business in the large sense
Of the word--women who have founded, developed
and are at the head OF their own business
which means vastly in the Orient than in the
Oceident
sr 'We do not like her; she is too rich." said a
Japanese man one day. and he was speaking of a
woman who is known throughout the empire its
most remarkable business woman. She is Madame
Suzuki Of Kobe, and she bears the distinction of be-
ing the one woman in Japan who was decorated by
the Emperor for her share in building up Japans
foreign trade.
Madame Suzulsi is described as woman of iron
rInd with the ability Of man. About twenty-five
years ago her husband died. leaving her small
sugar business which he had started in Kobe in 1877.
Wti her marvellous executive ability, she developed
il, engaged in new enterprises and developed them
until today her capital IS reported to amount to
Ioooooooo yen. Her factories aggregate over $4,000
employees and, besides score Of small companies,
she has the leading financial interest in long list of
Important concerns Of a varied nature, *
gradually turning the management Of her bust
ness affairs to four trusted managers but all inn
portant propositions brought to her for final de-
cision. Sometimes she exercises her right Of veto,
and il is SAID that invariably her decision is justified
BY the result Her favorite manager, Mr.. Kaneko,-
who is now Of the best-known business men in
Japan. has, it is said. the place of in her
heart, although she has two sons one OF whom was
student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy, in Boston,
Madame Nakamura called "the Iron Woman of
OSAKA Is onIf 81 years old and therefore her failure
during the recent business panic has not completely
crushed her. II may bcsconsdered unworthy to in
clude Madame Nakanura among the successful bus-
ness women Of Japan. were it not that many COM
pany established and managed by experienced men
went TO the wall when the postwar business depfess-
ION caught this country And this courageous lady,
after paying IS sen Son the yen, has retained 5000
in her pocket in order to start her business again.
When, six years ago, Madame Nakamura's hus-
band died. he left his steel business DIVIDED between
- brother and his wife. The partnership endured
for two years and then Madame Nakamura bought
out the interest OF her brother-n-iaw and ran the
business herself She learned the game" to the
tent Of building up reputation as business woman
Of great ability and Of gaining the confidence Of the
banks. And when, having children she adopted
son. it was principally due to the regard Of the
business world for her sagacy and the report of
her wealth that it was considered an honor for the
family Of Count Tsutsumi when of its went
into her home as its son and heir.
WyHEN little Ume Tsuda. at years, raised her small
w voice and eagerly pleaded to be sent to America
in place Of her elder sister who had been chosen by
the government but whose courage had failed. she
had mo- idea that day she would rank as Japans
foremost educationaIist.
She remained many years in America, studying
hard and mbibing American ideals of womanhood,
50 long time. In fact, that when she returned to
Japan, after graduating from Bryn Mawr, she was
unable to talk with her own father-and even now
she has the reputation Of speaking Japanese with
an American accent"
She saw with the eyes OF experience that her
fellow women in Japan oppressed by lack of
= broad education, and her whole soul was keen to