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Agencies

Russo-Chinese Bank

HAKODATE—OSAKA

Chinese Eastern Ry. Co., S. S. Service Russian East Asiatic S. S. Co.

Russian Lloyd

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

SISTERS OF CHARITY

Sceur Marie Auguste, supérieure

Eight sisters

Societé des MISSIONS ETRANGÈRES

Rt. Rev. A.Berlioz, Bishop of Hakodate,

Sendai

Rev. C. Jacquet, vicar general, Sendai Rev. U. Faurie, Aomori

Rev. J. H. Lafon, Sapporo

Rev. O. M. de Noailles, Yokohama Rev. P. D. Dalibert, Yamagata Rev. E. Christmann, (absent) Rev. J. E. Favier, (absent) Rev. J. J. M. Rousseau, Morioka Rev. J. B. Deffrennes, Sendai Rev. A. M. P. Pouget, Morioka Rev. R. L. Mathon, Akita Rev. J. E. Billiet, Sapporo Rev. P. A. Nonge (absent) Rev. P. Narion, Niigata Rev. J. Reynaud, Niigata Rev. F. J. Hervé, Tsurugaoka Rev. F. F. Corgie, Wakamatsu Rev. A. J. Hutt, Asahigawa Rev. J. Biannic, Hahodate Rev. A. Cornier, Otaru

Rev. Chambon, Hakodate Rev. L. Montagu, Hirosaki Rev. P. Anchiers, Hakodate Rev. A. Breton, Sendai

TRADE HALL

B. Iwahana, chief manager

SAPPORO

AGRICULTURAL College

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

HOKKAIDO CHO (ADMINISTRATION)

Governor-Baron Y. Sonoda

HOKKAIDO COAL MINE RAILWAY Co.

K. Inouye, chief director

565-

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

Gentaro Tanaka, president Yasutaro Uno, manager

MILITARY

gawa)

SEVENTH DIVISION (Asashi-

Lieut. -Gen.—Baron Naotoshi Osako

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. Considering the extent to which the factory system of indu- strialism now holds sway, the town recalls Mancester rather than Venice. Osaka is essentially Japanese, though a go-ahead and progressive city, and possesses much of interest to the foreign visitor. The population is close upon a million. It is situated in the province of Setsu, and is built on the banks of the river Aji, 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 has been constructed to accom modate ocean-going steamers. The most imposing and at the same time the most interesting object to be seen in Osaka is the Castle, erected in 1583 by the famous warrior Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and which was carried by Yeyasu, the founder of the House of Tokugawa Shoguns, after a famous siege in 1615. 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 garrison, and forms the headquarters of one of the six great military districts, and it has also within its inclosure an extensive military arsenal. The city is the seat of the

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