TAKAMICHI, Takeo (HONGKONG), Manager of local branch Yokohama Specie Bank; b. 1881. Educ.: At Marquis Hosokawa's Eng. Seh, under Capt. L. L. Janes. The Saigo Rebellion in 1877 interrupted his education as he joined the Commissariat of the Imp. Army as private attach to Baron H. Noda, then in charge of Commissariat of second division; retained this position during the war; in 1879, was entrusted by the Baron to the late Mr. Y. Iwasaki (founder of the Mitsu Bishi S.S. Company) to be educated at his private Commercial Sch.; was in the service of Mitsu Bishi and Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 1881-93; joined Yokohama Specie.Bank, Ltd., in 1894, and has held important positions at Shanghai, Bombay, and Tokyo before being promoted to position of Manager at Hongkong; is of a family famous since 1200 A.D., the successive heads of the family being entitled from 1200 to 1870, to be ruler of the village of Takamichi, in province of Higo, Kyushu. Address: Yokohama Specie B:xuk, Hongkong.