IWASAKI, KOYATA, 2ND BARON (1879— ), Japanese philanthropist, was born in 1879, and succeeded to the barony in 1909. Educated at the Imperial university of Tokyo and at Cam bridge, England, he became president of the banking department of the Mitsubishi company. His vast wealth was largely expended in experiments and benefactions. He instituted a research farm in the north of Japan for stock raising. His visit to England con vinced him of the educational value of public libraries and when the library of G. E. Morrison, for many years The Times (Lon don) correspondent in Peking, came into the market, Baron Iwasaki bought it for the students of Japan. He added to it the
bulk of his own collection and in addition to buying a site and erecting a building to contain it, he allotted a sum of money annually to the institution for the purpose of keeping it up to date by the purchase of new books. The library is called the Tay5 Bunko (Oriental library) and is situated in Kamifujimae Cho in Hongo, Tokyo.
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