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JAPAN,
375
Brought forward ...
$39,918,561
Judicial Department (Shi Ho Sho)
1,785,000
Imperial Household (Ku Nai Sho)
Colonization Department (Kai Taku Sho)
348,000 1,934,199
Land Tax Reform Office
90,400
Post Offic
1,260,000
Cost of establishing Industrial Undertakings...
1,331,559
Supplementary Grants in aid of Undertakings
103,172
Administration of Cities and Prefectures...
4,539,280
Police Expenditure ...
2,575,596
Shrines and Temples
135,000
Buildings and Embankments in Provinces
1,884,415
Diplomatic and Consular Services
Relief Fund for Agricultural Distress Miscellaneous Expenditure...
Contingent
821,000
1,200,000
607,325
1,500,000
Total Estimated Expenditure... $59,933,507
The domestic debt of Japan in 1880 was, inclusive of paper money in circulation, Capitalized Pension Bonds, &c., &c., $347,034,594. This also includes an Internal Loan of $12,500,000 raised by public subscription in 1878. The Foreign debt of Japan was:-
Bearing interest 9 per cent. Bearing interest 7 per cent.
$ 976,000 10,036,696
-$11,012,696
ARMY AND NAVY.
The armed force of Japan is divided into the Standing Army, the Reserve, and the Militia, and the troops into five cla ses. The Standing Army comprises 40 battalions of Infantry, and one of Cavalry, 18 companies Artillery, 10 companies Engineers, 6 companies of Transport Corps, and 9 companies Marine Artillery. When on a peace footing the Army numbers about 32,300 men, and on a war footing 50,000 men. They are stationed in various parts of the Empire, which is divided into six military districts, having headquarters at Tokio, Nagoya, Sendai, Osaka, Hiroshima, and Kumamoto. Camps are established in 37 places. Not included in the above are the Imperial Guard, composed of about 3,700 picked troops, which bring up the strength of the regular army, in time of peace, to some 36,000. The army has been organised on the French system by officers sp cially selected by the French Government.
The navy of Japan consists of one ironclad frigate, three ironclad corvettes, one ironclad gunboat, five wooden corvettes, ten gunboats, six despatch vessels, and five training ships, all steamers. The largest of these ships, the ironclad frigate Fu-so, was built by Messrs. Samuda, Brothers, at Poplar, London, and despatched to Ja, an in March, 1878. The Fu-so has a burthen of 3,700 tons displacement, with engines of 3,500 horse-power. The armour is from 7 inches to 9 inches in thickness, while the armament consists of four 15-ton and two 5-ton steel breechloaders by Krupp, so arranged as to command every point of the horizon. The second largest ship of the navy is an ironclad corvette, called the Kon-go, constructed at Earle's shipbuilding yard, Hull, after the design of Sir E. J. Reed, and arrived in Japan in 1878. The Kon-go has a bur hen of 2,800 tons displacement, with engines of 2,500 horse-power, and has a belt of armour 4 inches thick. The armament consists of 12 Krupp guns,
43 capable of t rowing steel shells of 142 pounds. The Hi-yei, a sister ship to the Kon-go, was also built at Hull, and arrived in Japan in 1878. The navy is manned by 4,241 officers and men, and carries 146 guns.
POPULATION, TRADE, AND Industry.
The total ar a of Japan is estimated at 156,604 square miles, with a population of 35,768,584, namely, 18,140,857 males and 17,627,727 females, according to official reports of the year 1879. The empire is geographically divided into the four islands, Hondo, the central and most important territory; Kiushiu, "the nine provinces,"
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