JAPAN: No. 1

There was in Tokyo last week an assassination of World importance.

The hour lacked ten minutes of high noon. Down Suraga-cho a twinkling limousine purred toward No. 1. It carried Baron Dr. Takuma Dan.

No. 1 is a low, impressive marble building remindful of No. 23 Wall St., the bland and open citadel of J. P. Morgan & Co. Also bland and open is No. 1, citadel of the Mitsui Gomel Kaisha.

There are richer holding companies than Mitsui Gomel Kaisha but in all the world there is no other enterprise...

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