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JAPAN,
Brought forward .....
Judicial Department (Shi Ho Sho)
$44,655,265 1,785,000
Imperial Household (Ku Nai Sho)
354,000
Colonization Department (Kai Taku Sho)
1,407,559
Agriculture and Commerce Department
1,039,814
Post Office
1,471,007
Cost of establishing Industrial Undertakings.
1,243,702
Repairs and Constructions, &c.
495,011
Administration of Cities and Prefectures...
3,372,796
Police Expenditure
2,217,946
142,550
4,575,000
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457,000
...
1,200,000
2,65,345
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1,500,000
Shrines and Temples
Capital Funds for several Departments Diplomatic and Consular Services
Relief Fund for Agricultural Distress Miscellaneous Expenditure... Contingent
Total Estimated Expenditure...... $68,573,995
The dom stie debt of Tapan in 1881 was, inclusive of paper money in circulation, Capitalized Pension Bonds, &c., &r., 8342,255,631. This also includes an Internal Loan of $12,500,000 rai-ed by public subscription in 1878. The Foreign debt of Japan was:-
l'earing interest 9 per cent. Bearing interest 7 per cent.
$ 488,000 9,685,336
ARMY AND Navy.
-$10,173,336
The armed force of Japan is divided into the Standing Army, the Reserve, and the Militia, and the troops into five classes. 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 Jajan 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 which arrived in Japan in 1878. The Kon-go has a burthen 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, capable of throwing steel shells of 142 pounds. The Hi-yei, a sister ship to the Kon-go, wis 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 area 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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