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and
navy
are provided with
artillery and rifles of approved -
I have already.
· modern types. pointed out above the remarkable
· progress made in the adoption of the arts and appliances of modern
civilization in civil and social
life. All these great innovations - have been made within less than
a quarter of a century; and so- cconomically that the whole national debt searecly execedo
one year's revenue
while the
national paper-money
will
become
breome convertible at the beginning
of 1886.
It will be recollected
11.
was.
that during several centuries the Executive Government of Japan usurped by the Shoguns (analogous to the Maires du Palais of old French History), who ruled at Yedo (now called Tokyo), while the legitimate Sovereign, the Mikado, reigned in dignified seclusion at Kyôto. The Shoguns the chiefs of a feudal oligarchy
were
virtually
of Daimyo, or territorial Baroné
.
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