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September 27th.
An interesting day, going in the morning to the Stock Exchange
where the incongruity of men in haori and kimonas, their
getas left at the door, bidding for stocks in all the wild
fury of a New York pit, was memorable. From there I went to
see Mr. Oka of the Department of Commerce and Agriculture,
by arrangement with Viscount Kaneko, and from there to see
Mr. Shihotsu, of the Japanese paper (the printers were sing-
ing again) who gave me no more introductions. At the hotel I
found Mr. Chiba waiting for tiffin, and after arranging a
visit to the cotton factory tomorrow, he took me to the home
of a lady whom he pronounced the best singer in Japan -- and she
was tiptop, her rendering of . . . . . 's "Jerusalem" being
especially fine. She also sang in one or two other languages.
Was somewhat humiliated when removing my shoes to find three
or four loud and irrepressible holes in the toe, but was con-
soled later when Mr. Chiba said that President Taft had the same
humiliation when he visited a tea house here. Later called on
Editor Penlingon of the Japan Times, who doesn't think much
of the Japs, -- except of their shrewdness and cunning.

September 28th
Started day by visiting the British Embassy for information,
after which I had an interesting interview with Dr. Nitobe,
Professor of Economics in the Imperial University. At 1:40
Mez and I went to the famous Kanagafuchi cotton factory where
Director Fuji showed us distinguished consideration, giving
most of the afternoon to information, explanation and exhibi-
tion of his great enterprise employing 3,500 operatives and