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Government is carried on Ministry named by and responsible to the Mikado. But the whole of Japan has been divided into districts (Ken) with Profecto (Fienzei) and local Councils, analogous to the machinery of the Departments in France.

12.

newspapers

are

ets for the public press,

published in English and French at the chief Treaty Norts of Yokohama and Kobe; while the -native Japanese journals, printed in the vernacular, generally discuss

with

with knowledge, moderation, and

sense the internal affairs of

good

the Empire, and its relations with

Foreign Powers. I annex, as a ----

Enclosure: specimen,

from

specimen, an article translated_

one

of these vernacular

newspapers, and treating of resent

affairs in China.

13.

In conclusion, it may

be stated that the most important

question

Now

affecting the relations

of Japan with other nations is __ the Revision of the Treaties which

is now being negotiated between