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MISSIONS

HAKODATE-OSAKA

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

RUSSIAN CHURCH

SCOTT, JAMES, Millwright and Machinist

SEMENOFF & Co., Merchants

J. L. Semenoff (Vladivostock)

G. P. Denbigh,

A. G. Denbigh

A. Denbigh

J. A. Cooper

C. Kleye

J. Moritaka

do.

S. Borizoff, (Saghalien) C. A. Zensinoff, do. R. Sakurada

Agencies

Russo-Chinese Bank

Chinese Eastern Railway Co., S. S. Serv. Russian Lloyd

Equitable Insurance Co. of U. S. Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld.

SISTERS OF CHARITY

Soeur Marie Auguste, supérieure

Eight sisters

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

TRADE HALL

Rev. Chambon

B. Iwahana, chief manager

SAPPORO

HOKKAIDO CHо (ADMINISTRATION)

Governor-Baron Y. Sonoda

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HOKKAIDO FLAX SPINNING AND WEAVING Co., LD.; Tokyo Office, Kitashinbori, Nihonbashi

Gentaro Tanaka, president Yasutaro Uno, manager

HOKKAIDO COAL MINE RAILWAY CO.

K. Inouye, chief director

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

President-Shosuke Sato, PH.D. Fourteen 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 which at one time were established in the latter city have removed to Kobe. Hopes are very generally entertained in Osaka of a recovery of the city's lost position in this respect, and to that end a new harbour is being constructed to accommodate ocean-going steamers. The most imposing and at the same time

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