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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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