KOMURA, Baron Jutaro (TOKYO), Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James; b. Sept., 1885, at Hyuga. Educ.: Harvard University, U.S.A. Appointed Secretary, Foreign Office, 1884; later Assistant Director of Transaltion Bureau, Foreign Office; Charge d'Affaires at Peking until outbreak of Chino-Japanese War; Civil Administrator of Aiituug during War; 1894-1895; later Director of Political Bureau; Minister at Seoul, until 189J; Vice-Minister of Foreign Affaiis, 1896-1898; Minister, at Washington, 1898; Minister, at St. Petersburg, 1900; transferred to Peking to represent Japan at Intcrnatiomil Conference in connection with Boxer trouble; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sept., 1901; created Baron, 1902, Senior Peace Plenipotentiary at Peace Conference, Portsmouth, 1905; signed Treaty of Peace, Sept., 1905; afterwards signed, at Peking, Treaty with China regarding ante-bellum settlement in Manchuria, 1906; appointed to Privy Council, 1906; appointed Minister to Great Britain, May, 1906. Address: Tokyo, Japan.