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JAPAN TOKYO

SWITZERLAND (LEGATION) 3 of 1,

Niban-cho, Kojimachi-ku

Minister-Walter Thurnheer 2nd Secretary--Julien A. Rossat Chancellor Ernest C. Ribi Interpreter--James G. Sakamoto

TURKEY (EMBASSY) 47, Kamiyama

machi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Telephs. Shibuya 0780 and 2005

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary H. E. R. Husrev

Gerede

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (EMBASSY)-1, Mamianacho, Azabu- ou, Tokyo; Teleph. Akasaka 0138, 0139; Cable Ad: Polpred

Ambassador-K. Yurenev

Trade Commissioner and Comm'l

Counsellor V. Kotchetoff Counsellor-N. Rairid Military Attaché-Ivan Rink Naval Attaché-A. Kovaleff Consul General and 1st Secretary

-T. Deitchman

First Secretary-A. Askoff

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (EMBASSY) -1, Enokizaka-machi, Akasaka-ku; Telephs. Akasaka (48) 0421-4, 0525 and

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Ambassador Extraordinary and

Plenipotentiary - H. E. Joseph. Clark Grew

Counsellor-Eugene H. Dooman Naval Attache and Naval Attache for Air-Capt. Harold Bemis, U.S.N. Military Attache-Major Harry I.

Creswell, U.S.A.

Commercial Attache Frank S

Williams

1st Secretaries-Joseph F. McGurk

and Edward S. Crocker

2nd Secretaries-Cabot Coville and

George D. Andrews, Jr.

Assistant Naval Attache and Assistant Naval Attache for Air -Lt. Commdr. Francis Joseph Bridget, U.S.N.

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Assistant Military Attache

Robin B. Pape, U.S.A.

Capt.

Assistant Naval Attache-Lt. Edwin

Thomas Layton, U.S.N.

Assistant Commercial Attache-Paul

P. Steintorf

3rd Secretaries -Frank A. Schuler

and Max W. Schmidt Attache-Glen W. Bruner

Honorary Attache-David McAlpin

Pyle

TOKYO

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The capital of Japan is situated on Tokyo Bay, on the East coast 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 situat- ed undulating ground, and possessing abundant foliage. The city covers square miles and is divided into 35 wards.

In 1603, when Iyeyasu became Shogun, he made Yedo, as it was then called his capital, and from that time, in spite of the earthquakes which several times nearly destroyed it and the fires which ravaged it, the city oon- tinued to grow until it exceeded Kyoto, the ancient capital, in population and in splendour. The transfer of the Imperial Capital from Kyoto to Tokyo, as it was then re-named, in 1868, brought increased prosperity to the city, and from a population of a little more than 580,000 in 1878, it increased to 1,230,000 in 1888, to 1,140,000 in 1898, and to 2,170,000 in 1920 when the first national census was taken. According to the 1935 census the population was 875,388.

Tokyo is one of the three cities in Japan which stands in a prefecture by itself, with a Governor appointed by the Central Government. The city itself is governed by a Mayor and a Municipality, which now has control over most of the public utilities, including the water and electric supplies, and the