JAPAN: JAPAN New Cabinet

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Affairs—Baron Tanaka. Home Minister—Kisabro Suzuki. Finance Minister—Korekiyo Takahashi. Minister of the Army—Jchisuke Tsuno. Minister of the Navy—Admiral Keisuke Okada.

Minister of Justice—Yoshimichi Hara. Minister of Education—Chuzo Mitsuchi. Minister of Agriculture—Teijro Yamamoto, Minister of Communications—Neisuke Mochizuki.

The Cabinet's first act was to petition and receive the Emperor's signature upon a decree authorizing all banks to suspend payments for the three weeks to ameliorate the fiscal crisis.

* Chief opposition party, but in a minority compared to the united Kenseikai and Seiyukai parties which supported the last cabinet.

† Prudent Japanese law ordinarily debars army men from a political career.

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