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JAPAN TOKYO
SWITZERLAND (LEGATION) 3 of 1,
Niban-cho, Kojimachi-ku
Minister-Walter Thurnheer 2nd Secretary--Julien A. Rossat Chancellor Ernest C. Ribi Interpreter--James G. Sakamoto
TURKEY (EMBASSY) 47, Kamiyama
machi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Telephs. Shibuya 0780 and 2005
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary H. E. R. Husrev
Gerede
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (EMBASSY)-1, Mamianacho, Azabu- ou, Tokyo; Teleph. Akasaka 0138, 0139; Cable Ad: Polpred
Ambassador-K. Yurenev
Trade Commissioner and Comm'l
Counsellor V. Kotchetoff Counsellor-N. Rairid Military Attaché-Ivan Rink Naval Attaché-A. Kovaleff Consul General and 1st Secretary
-T. Deitchman
First Secretary-A. Askoff
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (EMBASSY) -1, Enokizaka-machi, Akasaka-ku; Telephs. Akasaka (48) 0421-4, 0525 and
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Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary - H. E. Joseph. Clark Grew
Counsellor-Eugene H. Dooman Naval Attache and Naval Attache for Air-Capt. Harold Bemis, U.S.N. Military Attache-Major Harry I.
Creswell, U.S.A.
Commercial Attache Frank S
Williams
1st Secretaries-Joseph F. McGurk
and Edward S. Crocker
2nd Secretaries-Cabot Coville and
George D. Andrews, Jr.
Assistant Naval Attache and Assistant Naval Attache for Air -Lt. Commdr. Francis Joseph Bridget, U.S.N.
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Assistant Military Attache
Robin B. Pape, U.S.A.
Capt.
Assistant Naval Attache-Lt. Edwin
Thomas Layton, U.S.N.
Assistant Commercial Attache-Paul
P. Steintorf
3rd Secretaries -Frank A. Schuler
and Max W. Schmidt Attache-Glen W. Bruner
Honorary Attache-David McAlpin
Pyle
TOKYO
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The capital of Japan is situated on Tokyo Bay, on the East coast Japan. The river Sumida runs through the city, the larger part lying to the west of this waterway, while on the east lie the two wards named Honjo and Fukagawa
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Tokyo as viewed from the bay is a pleasant-looking city, being well situat- ed undulating ground, and possessing abundant foliage. The city covers square miles and is divided into 35 wards.
In 1603, when Iyeyasu became Shogun, he made Yedo, as it was then called his capital, and from that time, in spite of the earthquakes which several times nearly destroyed it and the fires which ravaged it, the city oon- tinued to grow until it exceeded Kyoto, the ancient capital, in population and in splendour. The transfer of the Imperial Capital from Kyoto to Tokyo, as it was then re-named, in 1868, brought increased prosperity to the city, and from a population of a little more than 580,000 in 1878, it increased to 1,230,000 in 1888, to 1,140,000 in 1898, and to 2,170,000 in 1920 when the first national census was taken. According to the 1935 census the population was 875,388.
Tokyo is one of the three cities in Japan which stands in a prefecture by itself, with a Governor appointed by the Central Government. The city itself is governed by a Mayor and a Municipality, which now has control over most of the public utilities, including the water and electric supplies, and the