TOKYO
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Home Office :-Dead 68,215; missing (believed to be dead), 39,304; injured, 42,135. The number of houses destroyed is said to have been 316,000, or 71 per cent. of the whole of the buildings of the city; and no fewer than 1,360,000 people were rendered homeless.
Tramways have been extended in all directions; a ten-minute service is maintain- ed with Yokohama. The main streets and those adjacent to them are lighted by electricity, and the remainder by gas. Lines of telegraphs, amounting in all to 200 miles, connect the various parts of the city with one another, and with the country lines. The main streets are broad and fairly well kept.
The soldiers and police are dressed in uniform on the western model. Though numbers appear in European garb, the mass of the people still wear the native dress.
The environs of Tokyo are very picturesque and offer a great variety of pleasant walks or rides. Foreigners will find much to interest them in the country round. The finest scenery is at the northern and western sides of the city, where the country is surrounded by beautiful hills, from which there is a distant view of the noble mountains of Hakone, while beyond rises in solitary grandeur the towering peak of Fuji-san covered with snow the greater part of the year. The population of Tokyo as disclosed by the Census of 1925 was 1,995,303.
The native Press is represented by some 20 daily papers, and many monthly and fortnightly publications. There is a daily paper run by Japanese in the English language called the Japan Times and Mail, which is representative of Japanese in- terests, and the Japan Advertiser, which for many years was published in Yokohama, is now published in the capital. There are 1,225 schools of different classes, in- cluding several universities, as distinct from the Imperial, or official, The best hotel for foreigners is the Imperial. Another new and well-equipped hotel, frequented principally by Japanese, is the Palace Hotel, also called the Tokyo Kaikan.
There are also the Tokyo Station Hotel, Marunouchi Hotel, Seiyo-ken Hotel, and many others patronised by foreigners.
DIRECTORY
(For Govt. Depts., Embassies and Legations see Japan section, pages 415-417)
AALL & Co., LTD., Import and Export-
3, Marunouchi C.; Telephs, 925 and 926 (Marunouchi); Tel. Ad: Aall
Cato N. B. Aall, managing director Johan Brandt, director
Ths. Seeberg, inanager
P. Kuzmichev
ABE KOBEI & Co., LTD., Exporters and Importers-5, Horitome, 1-chome, Ni- honbashi-ku
ABE SHOJI K. K., Manufacturers of Gas Apparatus and Fittings-16, Ginza, 3- chome, Kyobashi-ku
ABE TRADING Co.-348, Marunouchi Bldg.,
Marunouchi; Tel. Ad: Abesneji
ABRAHAM & Co., L. D.-310, Chiyoda Shintaku Building, Kyobashi-ku; Teleph. (56) 3798 (Kyobashi); P.O. Box 101 (Central); Tel. Ad: Abraham
J. Hara, manager
ACME TRADING CO., INC.-1, Gorobei-cho,
Kyobashi-ku; Tel. Ad: Acmetrado
ADVERTISER PUBLISHING & PRINTING Co.
-18, Yamashita-cho, Kyobashi-ku
B. W. Fleisher, managing director P. J. Morgan, business manager
AGFA GOMEI KAISHA, Importers of Photo- graphic Supplies-5 of 14, Naka-dori, Marunouchi; Teleph. 5242 (Ushigome); Tel. Ad: Agfafoto
AHRENS & Co., NACHF., H. (Gomei Kaisha), Yaesu Building, 7th floor, Marunouchi; Telephs, 2545 and 47 (Marunouchi); P.O. Box Central 137; Tel. Ad: Ahrens, Nitrammon, Nordĺloyd
H. Bosch, acting partner
P. von Schubert, partner (Shanghai)
Fr. Schneider,
signs per pro.
H. W. J. Schreiner,
do.
H. Schmid, agric. expert, do.
H. Gelder
Fr. Gilbert
K. Ziegler
A. Tomforde, agriculture expert H. Vogel
H. Umbhau (Yokohama)
Agents for
Stickstoff-Syndikat, G.m.b.H., Berlin
(Fertilizers)
Norddeutscher Lloyd, Breinen (Pas-
senger and Freight Line)