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TOKYO

Home Office :-Dead 68,215; missing (believed to be dead), 39,304; injured, 42,135. The number of houses destroyed is said to have been 316,000, or 71 per cent. of the whole of the buildings of the city; and no fewer than 1,360,000 people were rendered homeless. Much has been done to repair the terrible damage done to the city, but it will take some years yet before permanent new structures can be erected to take the place of all those that were destroyed.

Tramways have been extended in all directions; a ten-minute service is maintain- ed with Yokohama. The main streets and those adjacent to them are lighted by electricity, and the remainder by gas. Lines of telegraphs, amounting in all to 200 miles, connect the various parts of the city with one another, and with the country lines. The main streets are broad and fairly well kept.

The soldiers and police are dressed in uniform on the western model. Though numbers appear in European garb, the mass of the people still wear the native dress.

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 as disclosed by the Census of 1925 was 1,995,303.

The native Press is represented by some 20 daily papers, and many monthly and fortnightly publications. There is a daily paper run by Japanese in the English language called the Japan Times and Mail, which is representative of Japanese in- terests, and the Japan Advertiser, which was published for many years in Yokohama, is published in the capital. The Far East, a weekly illustrated newspaper, British owned, is also published in Tokyo. There are 1,225 schools of different classes, in- cluding several universities, as distinct from the Imperial, or official. The best hotel for foreigners is the Imperial. Another new and well-equipped hotel, frequented principally by Japanese, is the Palace Hotel, also called the Tokyo Kaikan. also the Tokyo Station Hotel, Marunouchi Hotel and Seiyo-ken Hotel.

DIRECTORY

There are

(For Govt. Depts., Embassies and Legations see Japan section, pages 462-464)

AALL & Co., LTD., Import and Export-- 1, Itchome, Yuraku-cho, Koji-machi-ku; Telephs. 5152 and 5306 (Ote);Tel. Ad: Aall Cato N. B. Aall, managing director Johan Brandt, director

Ths. Seeberg

P. Kuzmichev

AKIYAMA LAW OFFICE, THE, Attorneys- at-law and Patent Attorneys- Mitsu Bishi Building, 21, Marunouchi; Teleph. 4937 (Ote)

S. Ikeda, LL.B.

H. Yasuda, LL.B. } R. Ozawa

AMERICAN SCHOOL IN JAPAN-Hanezawa,

Shimo Shibuya

Board of Trustees-R. F. Moss (chair- man), A. K. Reischauer (vice-chair- man), H. S. Sneyd (secretary), C. P. Garman (treasurer), Mrs. C. P. Garman (assistant treasurer) Mrs. H. B. Benninghoff, principal K. Hashimoto Marie Turner Louise Clement Madge Winslow Betty O'Brien Gertrude Andress Edwin Tanner Mildred Landon

ALLEN, SONS & Co., LTD., W. H., Mechanical and Electrical Engineers-9, Marunouchi East, Koji-machi-ku; Tel. Ad: Manifesto

G. B. Šlater, representative

AMERICAN TRADING CO., INC.-28, Mitsu-

bishi-Kan, Marunouchi,

Marunouchi, Koji-machi- ku; Telephs. 6135-9 (Óte); Tel. Ad: Amtraco

Percy H. Jennings, chairman of Board (New York)

Walter S. Franklin, presdt. do.

Afred Debuys, vice presdt. do.

Daniel Warren, do.

Edward M. Sutliff, lo.

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Frank N. Shea, vice-president and

general manager for Japan

G. N. Mauger, agent

Wm. Hirzel, sub-agent

Specialty Department (Ginza Office).

W. C. Howe, manager

H. T. Goto, sales manager

Agencies

Home Insurance Co. of New York Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. South British Insurance Co.