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TOKYO

The environs of Tokyo are very picturesque and offer a great variety of pleasant walks or rides. Foreigners will find much to interest them in the country round. The finest scenery is at the northern and western sides of the city, where the country is surrounded by beautiful hills, from which there is a distant view of the noble mountains of Hakone, while beyond rises in solitary grandeur the towering peak of Fuji-san, covered with snow the greater part of the year. The population of Tokyo and its suburbs was, according to the official census of 1891, 1,510,841; that of the city proper being 1,217,309. The foreign residents in June, 1891 numbered 807, of whom.214 were British, 204 American, and 133 German. Many of these residents are in Government or Japanese employ.

The native Press is represented by more than a hundred newspapers, several of which are dailies. Among them the Nichi Nichi Shimbun, the Hochi Shimbun, the Choya Shimbun, the Jiji Shimpo, the Mainichi Shimbun, and the Tokyo Shimpo take the lead. There are 1,225 schools of different classes, including one university. A large and hand- some new hotel designed for foreigners and called the Imperial Hotel, was opened in 1890. It contains 65 rooms and is luxuriously fitted up. It is within five minutes' drive of the Shibashi railway station.

DIRECTORY

IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT

NAIKAKU (CABINET)

Count Ito Hirobumi, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Count Inouye Kaoru, Minister for Home Affairs

Mutsu Munemitsu, Minister for Foreign Affairs

Vice-Admiral Viscount Niire Kagenori, Minister of the Navy Count Goto Shojiro, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce General Count Yamagata Aritomo, Minister of Justice General Count Oyama Iwao, Minister of War

Kono Togama, Minister of Education

Count Kuroda Kiyataka, Minister of Communications

KWAMBO (SECRETARIAT)

Ito Miyoji, chief secretary

KWAIKEI KENSA IN (BOARD OF Auditors) Dosambashi-dori

Ariga Nagao, confidential secretary to Viscount Watanabe Nobori, president

Prime Minister

SHOKUN KYOKU (BOARD OF DECORATION) Marquis Saionji Kintomo, president Viscount Ogiu Yuzuru, vice-president

HOSEI KYOKU (Legislative Bureau) Suyematsu Kencho, presdt. & dirtr.first sec. Hirata Tosuke, director second section Imamura Waro, director third section

KIROKU KYOKU (RECORD Bureau) Hirohashi Kenko, director

KWAIKEI KYOKU (ACCOUNTANT'S OFFICE) Inouye Kiyoshi, director

KWAMPO KYOKU (OFFICIAL Gazette) Okuda Yoshiheto, director

TOKEI KYOKU (STATISTIC Bureau) Ishibashi Shigetomo, director

H. Roesler, legal adviser A. Mosse, legal adviser F. T. Piggott,

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A. Jaudon, translator

SUMITSU IN (PRIVY COUNCIL) Count Matsugata Masayoshi, president Count Higashikuze Michitomi, vice-presdt. Hirayama Shigenobu, chief secretary

KUNAI SHO (IMPERIAL HOUSE- HOLD DEPARTMENT) Imperial Palace, Tokyo Viscount Hijikata Hisamoto, minister Hanabusa Yoshitada, vice-minister

Secretariat

Nagasaki Seigo, confidential secretary Saito Totaro,

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Section for Interior Affairs

Matano Migaku, chief

Section for Exterior Affairs Sannomiya Yoshitane, chief