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Ambassador-K. Yürenev

JAPAN TOKYO

Military Attaché-Major Rufus S.

Bratton

Commercial

Attaché Frank S.

Comm'l Counsellor V. Kotchetoff Military Attaché Ivan Rink Naval Attaché-A. Kovaleff Consul General and 1st Secretary

-V. Jelezinakoff

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (EMBASSY) -1, Enokizaka-machi, Akasaka-ku; Telephs. Akasaka 421-4 and 525

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Joseph Clark

Grew

Counsellor Edwin L. Neville First Secretary-Erle R. Dickover Third Secretaries-Wm.. T. Turn- er, S. W. Washington and Cecil B. Lyon

Naval Attaché-Capt. I. C. John-

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Williams

Assistant Naval Attaché-H. H.

Smith-Hutton

Assist. Military Attaché Capt.

Truman M. Martin Language Attachés Capt. M. W. Pettigrew, U.S.A, Lt. S. A. Carlson, U.S.N., J. M. Allison, Frank Schuler, Lt. J. R. Sherr, U.S.A., Lts. R. G. Duff, U.S.A., D. J. McCallum, U.S.N., R. Ma- SOIL, U.S.N., A. D. Kramer, U.S.N., H. B. Clairborne, U.S.N., K. H. Cornell, U.S.M.C., 1st Lt. H. Doud, U.S. A., Lt. R. B. Pape, U.S.A., Lt. R. Fullinwider, U.S.N., Lt. F. P. Munson, U.S.A., and J. G. Parsons

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TOKYO

The capital of Japan [until the Restoration in 1868 called Yedo] is situated on Tokyo Bay, on the East coast of Japan. The river Sumida runs through the city, the larger part lying to the west of this waterway, while on the east lie the two wards named Honjo and Fukagawa.

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Tokyo as viewed from the bay is a pleasant-looking city, being well situated on undulating ground, and possessing abundant foliage. The city is divided into 15 ward divisions, and its suburbs into six divisions. It was, in fact, until recently more like an aggregation of towns than one great city, but every year has seen greater congestion and conditions more approximating to the crowded cities of the West. The ancient Castle of Yedo, now trans- formed into the Imperial, Palace, or Gosho, occupies a commanding position on a hill in the centre of the city. It is enclosed in double walls and sur- rounded by a fine broad moat. Within the Castle formerly stood the Shogun's Palace and several public offices, but the destructive fire of the 3rd of April, 1872, levelled these ancient and massive buildings, leaving only the lofty turrets and walls. A new palace on the old site has been constructed, and the Emperor took up his residence there in January, 1889. The Imperial Garden called Fukiage is situated within the enclosure of the palace. It is tastefully laid out in the pure native style, and contains fine forest trees, rare and beautiful plants of all kinds, a large pond, cascades, etc.

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Between the castle and the outer walls a large area was formerly occupied by the numerous palaces of the Daimios, but few of these feudal erections now remain to illustrate what old Yedo was like in the time of the Shogunate.

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The most important part of the business quarter is on the east of the castle, and is traversed by a main street running from the north to the south-west under different names.

A section well worth a visit is the public park or garden named Uyeno, where formerly stood the magnificent temple founded and maintained by the- Shoguns, and which was destroyed by fire during the War of Restoration in