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HAKODATE—OSAKA

LAFFIN, T. M., "Exchange Market," Ship- chandler and Contractor: Tel. Ad. King

E. J. King

MISSIONS

For Protestant Missionaries see end of

Japan Directory

NIPPON GINKO (BANK OF JAPAN)

C. Watanabe, sub-manager

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA (Japan Mail Steam-

ship Co.): Tel. Ad. Yusen

S. Sakaki, manager

vice-manager

SOCIETÉ DES MISSIONS ETRANGÈRES

Rt. Rev. A. Berlioz, Bishop of Hakodate Rev. C. Jacquet, vicar general

Rev. U. Faurie

Rev. J. H. Lafon

Rev, O. M. de Noailles

Rev. P. D. Dalibert Rev. E. Christmann Rev. J. E. Favier

Rev. J. J. M. Rousseau Rev. J. B. Deffrennes Rev. A. M. P. Pouget Rev. R. L. Mathon Rev. J. E. Billiet Rev. P. A. Monge Rev. P. Marion Rev. J. Reynaud Rev. F. J. Hervé Rev. F. F. Corgier

Rev. A. J. Hutt

Rev. J. Biannic

Rev. A. Cornier

Rev. Chambon

RUSSIAN CHURCH

SCOTT, JAMES, Millwright and Machinist

SEMENOFF & Co., Merchants

J. L. Semenoff (Vladivostock) G. P. Denbigh, do.

A. G. Denbigh Y. Nagano

C. Kleye T. Pallister

SISTERS OF CHARITY

Sœur Marie Auguste, supérieure

Eight sisters

TRADE HALL

B. Iwahana, chief manager

SAPPORO

HOKKAIDO CHO (ADMINISTRATION)

Governor-Baron Y. Sonoda

HOKKAIDO FLAX SPINNING AND WEAVING

Co., Ln.

Kisaka Shibusawa, president Yasutaro Uno, manager

Tokyo Office, Kitashindori, Nihonbashi

HOKKAIDO COAL MINE RAILWAY CO.

K. Takashima, director K. Inouye, Manager

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

President-Shosuke Sato, PH.D. Eight Japanese professors

MILITARY-Seventh DIVISION

Lieut.-General-Baron T. Nagayama

SAPPORO BREWERY

S. Uyemura, director

TANKO RAILWAY COMPANY

Sutezo Nishimura, president

OSAKA

Osaka is the second city in Japan in point of size and commercial importance, and has not inaptly been termed the Venice of the Far East, owing to the manner in which it is intersected by canals. The city is compact and well laid out, the streets being regular, clean, and animated. Osaka is essentially Japanese, though a go-ahead and progressive city, and possesses much of interest to the foreign visitor. It is situated in the province of Settsu, and is built on the banks of the river Ajikawa, about five miles from the sea. The river is only navigable for small vessels, and on the opening of the railway to Kobe the foreign trade of Osaka commenced to decline. Almost all the foreign firms in the latter city have removed to Kobe. The most imposing and at the same time the most interesting object to be seen in Osaka is the Castle, erected in 1583 by one of the Shoguns, the famous Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Though less extensive than that of Tokyo, it is a much grander and more striking edifice, and is indeed, next to that of Nagoya, the finest example of the ancient feudal castles of Japan. It is now occupied by the Osaka

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