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important Japanese firms of grocers, caterers, etc, having branches in and around Honmachi, the very typically Japanese shopping street that branches off from this square. On the opposite side, running back to the Northwest past the Chosen Hotel into Taihei-dori in front of the city Office, is another broad thoroughfare, called Hasegawa-cho. In this central part of the city the roads, public buildings and shops can bear favourable comparison with any of the great towns of Japan proper. Many other roads have been made and widened in different parts of the city, particularly in the vicinity of the new Imperial University, which lies in the north-east and was opened in May, 1926. The work of town-planning. the making of parks and so forth, is pur- sued regularly each year, though somewhat hampered at present by lack of funds. Lastly, mention must be made of the steep hill of Nansan, which dominates the city to the south, half-way up the slope of which the Japanese have set the great Chosen Shrine, at which Ama-terasu O-mikami, the divine ancestress of the Japanese Imperial family, and the Emperor Meiji, founder of modern Japan, are venerated as national guardian deities. This shrine is approached by a magnificant flight of stone steps, and from the terrace in front of it a splendid panorrama of the city outspread below is obtained.

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The population of the city was 382,491 at the end of 1933 of whom 270,590 were Korean, 106,782 Japanese, 4,688 Chinese, 188 American, 114 British, 72 Russian, 27 German, 24 French, 6 Swedish.

DIRECTORY

BANKS

BANK OF CHOSEN, THE-11, Nandaimon-

dori

CHOSEN SHOGYO GINKO 111, Nandai-

mon-dori, 2-chome

CHOSEN SHOKUSAN GINKO-140, Nan-

daimoa-dori, 2-chome

DAI-ICHI GINKO, LTD 9, Naudaimon-

dori, 2-chome

KANJO GINKO 4, Nandaimon-dori, Keijo

SANWA GINKO-5, Nandaimon-dori, 2-

chome

YASUDA BANK 41, Hon cho

BRIEN, DR. D. H., Mining Engineer.-

31, Takezoe-machi, 3-chome; Cable Ad: Brien

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY-

92, Shoro; Teleph. 283 (Kokamon); Cable Ad: Testaments

Hugh Miller; secretary

Thomas Hobbs, assist. secretary

BRODESSOLLES ET BOUTANT-367, Taihei-

cho, 2-chome, Keijo

CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY OF KOREA, Publishers and Booksellers, Publishing Office of the "Korea Mission Field" --Telephs. 275, 557 and 1349 (Koka- mon)

G. Bonwick, M,C., publication'secretary

(on leave)

N. C. Whittemore, (on leave).

Rev. W. M. Clark, D.D., secre-

tary-in-charge

CONSULATES

AMERICA Teido, 10; Teleph. 772

(Kokamon)

Consul-Andrew W. Edson Vice Consul-Ralph Cory

CHINA-15,

1-chome, Hon-machi,

Keijo (Seoul)

FRANCE-30, Hamaguri-cho; Teleph. 977 (Kokamon); Cable Ad Fran- sulat, Keijo

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Consul M. Pierre Depeyre Vice-Consul-M. E. Martel

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