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Show JAPANESE ASSERTS DRY LAW IS BAD SALT LAKE, April 10. Jlro Han-aoka. Han-aoka. member of the lower house "f tho Japanese parliament of the chamber cham-ber of omniercc of Nagano, japan, president of the Nagano Electric companv com-panv and of the ".sliln.'itin Ft It.-:" with his party on a lour of the world expressed the opinion yesterday upon his arrival in Salt I-ak- that tin-prohibition tin-prohibition law as well as the antU eigaret and anti-gambling laws of this counr- were not only failures hut had for the people Inasumcb as they tended to produce law breakers IL' paid high tribute to Ihe system of taxation In the I'nited states Hanaoka. with Ippi Akamoto. cartoonist car-toonist and writer, and several business busi-ness men of Japan are making a tour of the world, and left Salt Lake last evening for the east They will stop off al all the principal cities between I Here ami .vow liqrK Uly. r rom there the party will go to Europe. They left Japan March 18 and antici-i antici-i pate thtit their tour will consume the, larger p-rt of one year The other members of the party are: K. lto, a stationer of i?okio i Nftta, a warehouse director of Kobe, i Japan: K. KamltO, a building con-; tractor from Tokio. and his -.-n. I:. Knmito. a hort iculturhtt . S. Tsui,--; awa. mancglng editor of one of th-laigest th-laigest women's magazines in Japan: II. Ofsuka, of Kyoto, Janan, a rejio manufacturer and O Watana.be of Tokio. a Japanese tourist agent and interpreter in-terpreter for the party, which stopped at tho Hotel I'tah. |