Who's Who in the Far East/HARE, Prof. Alexander Joseph

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HARE, Prof. Alexander Joseph (TOKYO), Professor of Higher Commerical School. Educ.: Schools and college in England, Germany and France. Secretary of Chamber of Commerce at Kobe at its inception; translator for Prussian legation at Kobe and Yokohama, 1863; twenty five years in Japanese Government service in Higher Commercial School; witness of every change in reconstitution of Japinesa Government from feudil times to the present Meiji Dynasty; witnessed the attack upon foreigners in Kobe, in 18.8; was officially present at the "harahiri" of the Bizen Official which was brought about in circumstances described in Mitford's "Tales of old Japan". Decoration: 4th class order of Rising Sun. Address: Tokyo, Japan.