JAPANESE WARNED
“WINE, WOMEN AND MONEY” Wine, women and money—not song—are the worst temptations besetting an official career in Japan, Kenzo Adachi, Minister of Home Affairs, told a batch of successful candidates for government jobs. “Sooner or later,” said the whitehaired statesman, “almost every man who enters official life gets into trouble through excessive love of one of thes/: three things—sakeh, onna, kane (wine, women, money).” The warning was widely quoted as Mr. Adachi is known more as a practical politician than a moralist.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1026, 17 July 1930, Page 7
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84JAPANESE WARNED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1026, 17 July 1930, Page 7
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