The Washington times., 1922-07-16
.KATO CHOOSES
ABLE MEN FOR
CABINET GROUP
Japanese Newspapers Set Up
Wall, However, Against
! Naval Hero. ~.
By JAMES McCLAIN.
International News Service.

International News Service.
TOKYO, July 15.-The time elaps'
ing since the installation OF the kato
Cabinet has confirmed the Judgment
passed on >that day--that Admiral
Baron Kato picked a group OF re.
rnarkably strong and efficient men
for his Ministers. 1t should be a
successful cabinet for a time. but II
longer than the next meeting OF the
Diet II will be due TO the sheer donli'
nation of the Premier, the same man
who kept the delegates at the Wash.
ington conference guessing as to Just
what Japan was going to do.
That fact is explained when II Is
shown that although the ministers
are exceedingly efficient administra-
tors they are all-save Premier kato
and General Yamanashi, Minister OF
war-members Of the House OF
Peers; In short, bureaucrats Of the
first order. Some were members OF
the short-lived Terauchi Cabinet.
which went in during 1915, and
others were assigned posts In the
Cabinet that Viscount Klyoura failed
to complete in 1914, following the
famous naval scandal which caused
the downfall Of Admiral Count YAM
amoto, q man, now retired, who had
q big influence in helping Genro
: form the Kato Ministry.
Mizuno Important Man.
Considering the Kato Cabinet. 1t
seems that DIR. Rentaro Mizuno, the
new Minister of Home Affairs, Is to
play the most important part In the
Ministry, aside from the Premier
himself. He occupied the same post
in the ill.fated Terauchi Cabinet and
since that time has been Civil Gov.
rnor of Korea, there earning a rec
ord for remarkably efficient and lib.
raj administration and becoming ac.
cepted by the more liberal elements
also as one Of them.
The new finance minister, Otohiko
Ichiki, was vice minister in the Ter.
auchi Cabinet. He was a Satsuma
clansman and a leader Of the Ken.
kyukai. Ichiki has also figured
prominently in connection with ia
pans financial interests In Siberia.
Kentaro Arai, the Minister of Agri'
culture and Commerce. Ia the same
sort Of an individual, his interests
outside politics being largely in dc.
veloping trade in China. He has
served a great deal Of his life in the
Finance Department. once being
Vice Minister. He was to have been
Minister Of Finance in the Kiyoura
Cabinet had the Viscount succeeded
istry in 1914.
Mazda Youngest Member.
Viscount Toshisada Mazda, Min.
lister of Communications, is the
youngest member of the Ministry
and Is reputed to be one of the
most bureaucratic leaders of the
House of Peers. He is heavily in.
terested in various financial prof.
ects.
DR.. Keijiro okano. Minister of
Justice, is distinguished for his
work in law and education of the
country, having served as univer-
! sity professor and president until
a few years ago. when he was ap-
pointed to the Upper House of the
politics. DIR. Eikichi Kamada goes
to the Department of Education
from the presidents chair at Keio
University, which he has held for
the last twenty years. During this
time. however, he remained active
in the House Of Peers. Prior to
that time he was a membet of the
House of Representatives and iden.
titled with the Seiyukai.
Count Yenkichi Oki was Minister
Of Justice during the Hara and
Takahashi cabinets, being placed
there as a representative of the in
fluential Kenkyukai Of the House
of Peers, but was switched to the