『Kansas City Star』 vol.30,no.51 （1909.11.07）
JAP NOTABLES HERE FRIDAY
The Commerical Club to Dine Oriental
Leaders in Business and Education
Men who are chiefly responsible for the modernizing of Japan in business and education are in the party of Japanese who are to be the guests of the commercial club next Friday.The delegation has been touring the cities of the country since September 3 at invitation of the Chambers of Commerce on the Pacific Coast. Baron Eiichi Shibusawa is accompanied by his wife. He has contributed materially towards Japanese civilization in business and education. He has been in commerce what Prince Ito was in statesmanship. He was at one time director in seventy companies. He became assistant secretary of finance. He increased the annual revenue of the government, improved the methods of taxation, bettered the system of issuing notes, established banks and supervised the financial budget. He will be one of the speakers at the dinner Friday night.
The other Japanese speaker will be Baron Naibu Kanda, who also is accompanied by his wife. Baron Kanda is one of the great educators of his country. He is a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts. He is now professor in Peer's College, The Imperial University and the Foreign Language School of Japan. Tokugoro Nakahashi, one of the delegation, is president of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha Steamship Line which carries freight for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway in this country. Buei Nakano is a statesman as well as a business man. He is president of the Chamber of Commerce in Tokio.
The entertainment committee of the commercial club will be assisted by Kiichi Harada of the Kemper Grain Company and four other Japanese of this city. Something in the entertainment line will be doing all Friday. At the dinner Friday night in the Hotel Baltimore this will be the programme:
Invocation, the Rev. George P. Baity, pastor Westport Avenue Presbyterian Church. Toastmaster, W. T. Bland, president of the commercial club. The speakers: Baron Eiichi Shibusawa, Baron Naibu Kanda, Mayor T. T. Critenden, Senator William Warner, D. R. Francis, ex-governor of Missouri.
○栄一及ビ同夫人・中野武営・神田乃武夫妻ノ写真略ス。
（『渋沢栄一伝記資料』第32巻p.323-324掲載）
参考リンク
- 都市詳細 カンサスシテー - 渡米実業団
〔渋沢栄一記念財団 渋沢栄一〕
http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/eiichi/1909/city/c45_kansascity.html
