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JAPAN
CURRENCY
From October, 1897, Japan placed her currency on a gold basis. The unit of value is a gold Yen weighing .8333 grammes and containing .75 grammes of fine gold. The conversion from silver to gold was effected at the ratio of 1 to 32.348.
EDUCATION
Education is national and very general in Japan, and is making great progress. There are numerous High Schools, Middle Schools, Normal Schools, and Colleges for special studies-such as Law, Science, Medicine, Mining, Agriculture, and Foreign Languages-and several Female High Schools have been established, and are carefully fostered by the Government. In order to facilitate the prosecution of foreign studies the Government employs many European professors, and also sends, at the public expense, a large number of students every year to America and Europe.
THE 1923 EARTHQUAKE
An appalling earthquake--probably the most disastrous in its consequences of any recorded in the history of the world-occurred in Tokyo and Yokohama and the surrounding district on September 1st, 1923, as a result of which 100,000 people were killed, 43,000 were missing and believed to be dead, and 113,000 were injured. The material damage was enormous. A very large proportion of the buildings in the capital and the chief port were reduced to dust and ashes by the earthquake and the fires which followed. The official returns gave a total of 6,962 factories destroyed, and assessed the damage at yen $380,000,000. Questioned in the Diet, Mr. Inouye said the total loss from the earthquake was between seven and ten million yen.
DIRECTORY
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
(1, Ote-machi, Itchome, Kojimachi-ku,
Tokyo)
NAVY DEPARTMENT
(1, Kasumigaseki Nichome, Kojimachi- ku, Tokyo)
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (Motoe-cho, Kojimachi-ku, Tokyo)
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (Kojimachi Nishi Hibiya-machi, Tokyo)
EMBASSIES AND LEGATIONS
BELGIUM-3, Sannen-cho, Kojimachi-ku, Tokyo; Telephs. 4697 Aoyama (Am- bassador's Residence), 4693 Aoyama (Secretary's Residence)
Ambassador
Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary-Albert de Bassompiere
First Secretary-J. Berryer
Commercial Attaché-R. Grenade Interpreter-A. Iitaka
BRAZIL-Hotel Imperial, Tokyo
Ambassador Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotantiary- R. de Lima e Silva First Secy.--Godofredo de Bulhoes-
CHILE--Hotel Imperial, Tokyo
Chargé d'Affaires-M. Blanco Viel Attaché-Arthur Rose-Innes
Naval Attaché-Comdr. Rogers
CZECHOSLOVAKIA 22,
Kasumicho,
Azabu-ko, Tokyo; Teleph. 7004
(Aoyama)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary-J. Svagrovsky,
LL.D.
Secretary-P. Ruzicka
DENMARK-8, Marunouchi Nakadori,
Tokyo
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary
Henrik de
Kauffmann (Peking)
Chargé d'Affaires Ejnar Waerum;
Teleph. 2695 (Yotsuya)