ocr: Right Okuma Shigenobu commentary The Tokyo-Yokohama subscriber Listing' published at the start of telephone service in 1890 lists many of the names of the rounders of modern Japan. Number 158 belonged to shibusawa Ei'ichi, number 159 to Ukura <ihachiro, number 160 to baron sawaki Yataro of the 11tsubish1 ousiness empire, and number 177 to the champion of the democracy movement, Okuma shigenobu. Number 247 belonged to Goto Shojiro, number 248 to the father of the postal system' Maejima Hisoka, and sO on. It is no overstatement to call this list a Who's Who" of the Tlowering of modern Japanese c ...
