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JAPAN-TOKYO
The Imports froin various Foreign Countries in 1892 are classified by the Imperia Bureau of Revenue as :-
Arms, Clocks, Machinery, &c. Yen 3,681,226 Beverages and Provisions Books and Stationery
Clothing and Apparel Cotton, Raw
Cotton Yarn
Cotton Piece Goods
"
913,199
757,685
Linen and Manufactures of...Yen Metals and Manufactures of... 4,990,580 Oil and Wax (ex. Kerosine)...
447,695
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466,552
....
"
644,621
Oil-cakes...
824,652
"
""
12,324,655 Silk Manufactures
445,266
**
7,131,980 Sugar
19
9,601,350
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4,789,240 Textile Fabrics, Miscellaneous
442,534
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2,433,557
Vessels
.....
11
431,875
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1,595,670 Wines and Liquor
"
402,803
264,430 Woollen Manufactures. 4,887,191 Sundries
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6,988,104
99
2,072,146
19
1,457,610
19
3,328,398
Drugs, Medicines, & Chemicals,,
Dyes and Paints
Glass and Glass Ware
Grain (Rice, Beans, &c.)
*
Hair, Horns, Ivory, Skin, &c. Kerosine Oil
Yen 71,326,079
The total Shipping, from and to Foreign countries, for the year 1892 was-
Entered Tonnage Cleared Tonnage
Total Tonnage
Steamers
1,418
Sailing Vessels......
840
1,761,592 109,069
1,300 937
1,623,217
2,718
3,384,809
114,954
1,777
224,023
2,258 1,870,661 2,237
1,738,171 4,495 3,608,832 Of which 559 steamers and 172 sailing vessels entered, and 116 steamers and 37 sailing vessels cleared in ballast. 1,178 steamers of 1,749,439 tons and 17 sailing vessels of 28,824 tons entered, and 1,277 steamers of 1,870,406 tons and 18 sailing vessels of 31,068 tous cleared in the coast trade between the open ports. Of these about one half were British and one third Japanese employed in foreign trade. The merchant vessels entered from Foreign countries in 1892 were divided among the different nationalities as under:
British
Japanese (excluding Junks) ...401
German
United States of America
French...
Norwegian
Russian
Other Countries
Sailing Tonnage Total Tonnage
52,781 582 967,420
Strs. Tonnage
...531
914,639
51
337,763
69
13,750
470
351,513
..333
274,310
4
4,392
337
278,702
21
56,499
23
23,183
44
79,682
26
61,396
26
61,396
56
58,881
56
58,881
45
54,647
45
54,647
5
3,457
5
3,457
The total Customs Revenue for the same year consisting of-Export Duties, yen 2,204,546; Import Duties, yen 2,745,777; Miscellaneous, yen 119,594; Total, yen 5,069,917, an increase of seven and a third per cent. on the previous year. revenue has doubled since 1884.
The
By treaties made with a number of foreign Governments the Japanese ports of Kanagawa (Yokohama), Nagasaki, Kobe, Hakodate, Niigata, and the cities of Tokyo (formerly called Yedo) and Osaka were thrown open to foreign commerce. The treatise with some of the Powers were revised in 1889, and it was intended that the new treaties should come into operation in February, 1890, when the whole country was to be opened to subjects and citizens of such Powers, and extraterritoriality abolished. An agitation arose, however, in Japan, the Foreign Minister was, on the 19th October, 1889, severely wounded in an attempt made on his life in Tokyo, and the work of treaty revision had to be suspended. The German, American, and Russian Treaties were signed in 1889, but have not yet been ratified. Negotiations have since been resumed.
Railways in Japan are now being rapidly pushed forward. The first railway constructed was the one connecting Yokohama with Tokyo; it is 18 miles long and was opened for traffic as a single road on the 12th June, 1872, and was completed as a double line throughout on the 8th May, 1880. There are now over 1,800 miles of railway open in Japan. The principal line in point of importance is what is known as the Tokaido Railway, which now unites Tokyo with Kobe, vid Yokohama, Shizuoka, Nagoya, Kyoto, and Osaka. The North-Eastern Railway runs from Tokyo to Aomori, a port on the northern coast, and is 454 miles in length. The last section, from Morioka to Aomori, was opened to traffic on the 3rd September, 1891. Other lines are in course of construc- tion, some of which will ultimately complete the chain of communication from the extreme north of Hondo to Nagasaki in the south. In 1892 the Diet passed a law giving power to the Government to construct a network of state railways which will ultimately
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