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Iwasaki
S. Eguchi, manager
M. Isozaki, chief accountant T. Matsuki, sub-manager N. Fukuda
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA
N. Inuzuka, manager
M. Kobayashi, signs per pro. Y. Aioi, chief coal clerk
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NEWMAN, Dr. A. S., M.D., Shimonoseki and
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Moji)
K. Inouye, manager
S. Hamano, assistant manager
H. Ishikawa, chief accountant
K. Masuda, chief clerk (Shimonoseki)
OSAKA SHOSEN Kaisha, (Shimonoseki and
Moji)
K. Fujino, manager
Akira Yamamoto, asst. manager K. Ito, chief clerk
RASPE & Co., M., Merchants, 18, Kwan-
nonzakicho, Shimonoseki
P. Happel, manager
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Y. Taniguchi
H. Kadota, manager (signs per pro.) M. Noh and others
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NAGASAKI
Nagasaki is a city of great antiquity, and in the early days of European in- tercourse with the Far East was the most important seat of the foreign trade with Japan. It is admirably situated on the south-western coast of the Island of Kiushiu. A melancholy interest attaches to the neighbourhood as the scene of the extinction of Christianity in the empire and the extermination of the professors of that religion in 1637. At the entrance to the harbour lies the celebrated island of Pappenberg, where thousands of Christians are said to have been thrown over the high cliff rather than go through the form of trampling on the cross. Not far from Nagasaki is also the village of Mogi, where 37,000 Christians suffered death in defending themselves against the forces sent to subdue them. When the Christian religion was crushed and the foreigners expelled, to the Dutch alone was extended the privilege of trading with Japan, and they were confined to a small plot of ground at Nagasaki called Deshima. By the Treaty of 1858, Nagasaki was one of the ports opened to British trade on the 1st July in the following year.
On entering the harbour of Nagasaki no stranger can fail to be struck with the admirable situation of the town and the beautiful panorama of hilly scenery opened to his view. The harbour is a landlocked inlet deeply indented with small bays, about three miles long with a width varying from half-a-mile to a mile. A reclamation scheme was commenced in October 1897. 147 acres have been reclaimed, and retain- ing walls measuring nearly five miles in length has been built in front of what were formerly the foreign concessions at Deshima and Megasaki. Simul- taneously, the harbour has been deepened. The cost of the work was four- millions yen.
The town is on the eastern side of the harbour, and is about two miles long by about three-quarters of a mile in extreme width. The foreign quarter adjoins the town on the south side. The chief mercantile houses. are situated on the bund facing the harbour, behind which are a few running parallel with it, and there are a number of private residences on the hill-side. There are English Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, two clubs, and a Masonic
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