Background
Tanetaro was born in 1843, in Japan.
Tanetaro was born in 1843, in Japan.
Educated in America.
After the Meiji Restoration (1868) entered government service and saw office in turn with Education. In this capacity he rendered .great services in controlling finance during the Sino-Japanese (1894-95) and Russo-Japanese (1904-05) wars. He was the first to enforce government monopoly on tobacco, salt and cam¬phor and to introduce a proper customs tariff.