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important Japanese firms of grocers, caterers, etc., having branches in and around Honmachi, the very typically Japanese shopping street that branches off from this square. On the opposite side, running back to the Northwest past the Chosen Hotel into Taihei-dori in front of the city Office, is another broad thoroughfare, called Hasegawa-cho. In this central part of the city the roads, public buildings and shops can bear favourable comparison with the great towns of Japan proper. Many other roads have been made and widened in different parts of the city, particularly in the vicinity of the new Imperial University, which lies in the north-east and was opened in May, 1926. The work of town-planning. the making of parks and so forth, is pur- sued regularly each year, though somewhat hampered at present by lack of funds. Lastly, mention must be made of the steep hill of Nansan, which dominates the city to the south, half-way up the slope of which the Japanese have set the great Chosen Shrine, at which Ama-terasu O-mikami, the divine ancestress of the Japanese Imperial family, and the Emperor Meiji, founder of modern Japan, are venerated as national guardian deities. This shrine is approached by a magnificant flight of stone steps, and from the terrace in front of it a splendid panorrama of the city outspread below is obtained.
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The population of the city after the extension of its boundaries in 1936 was estimated at 650,000. The number of Europeans and Americans is under 400.
DIRECTORY
BANKS
BANK OF CHOSEN, THE+Keijo, Chosen
CHOSEN SHOGYO GINKO-111, Nandai-
mon-dori, 2-chome
CHOSEN SHOKUSAN GINKO-140, Nan-
daimon-dori, 2-chome
DAI-ICHI GINKO, LTD9, Nandaimon-
dori, 2-chome
Kanjo Ginko— 4, Nandaimon-dori, Keijo
SANWA GINKO 5, Nandaimon-dori, 2-
chome
YASUDA BANK-41, Hon-cho
BRIEN, DR D H., Mining Engineer.- 31, Takezoe-machi, 3-chome; Cable Ad: Brien
BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY--- 92, Shoro; Teleph. 283 (Kokamon); Cable Ad: Testaments
Hugh Miller, secretary
Thomas Hobbs, assist. secretary
BRODESSOLLES ET BOUTANT-367, Taihei-
cho, 2-choine, Keijo
CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY OF KOREA, Publishers and Booksellers, Publishing Office of the "Korea Mission Field" -Telephs. 3090, 3091 & 3092 (Koka- mon)
Rev. W. M. Clark, D.D., adminis-
trative secretary
Rev. N. C. Whittenmore (on leave) G. Bonwick, publications secretary
(on leave)
CONSULATES
AMERICA-10, Teido-cho; Teleph. 773
(Kokamon)!
Consul÷O. Gaylord. Marsh Vice Consul-Ralph Cory
CHINA-15,
1-chome,
Keijo (Seoul)
Hon-machí,
FRANCE-30, Hamaguri-cho; Teleph. 977 (Kokamon); Cable Ad: Fran- sulat, Keijo
Consul M. Pierre Depeyre Vice-Consul-M. E. Martel·