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JAPAN TOKYO

SWEDEN (LEGATION)-22, Nishi-machi, Azabu-ku, Tokyo; Teleph. Mita (45) 3420; Cable Ad: Swedlegation

Envoy Extraordinary and Minis-

ter Plenipotentiary-W. Bagge 1st Secretary--T. H. Wistrand. Secretary Archivist

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Hjortzberg-Nordlund

SWITZERLAND (LEGATION)

Niban-cho, Kojimachi-ku

J. J.

V.

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Minister Walter Thurnheer

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

THAI (LEGATION) 140, Itchome, Hara- juku, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Telephs. Aoyama 4337 & 4037

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Phya Sri Sena Military, Naval and Air Attachés-

Col. Luang Viray odha

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-M.

Counsellor and Charge d'Affairs a, i.

-M. K. Smetanin

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Counsellor Commercial M. S. A.

Plotkin

Naval Attache A. Kovaleff

Acting 1st Secretary-B. Rodoff 2nd Secretaries 1. Jourba, P.

Anuroff and N. Generaloff Attache--I, Volkov

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (EMBASSY) -1, Enokizaka-machi, Akasaka-ku; Telephs. Akasaka (48) 0421-4, 0525 and 1409

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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary -H. E. Joseph. Clark Grew

Counsellor-Eugene H. Dooman Naval Attache and Naval Attache for Air-Lt.-Comdr. Henri H. Smith- Hutton, U.S.N.

Military Attache-Lt. Col. Harry I.

Creswell, U.S.A. Commercial

Williams

Attache Frank S.

1st Secretaries--Stuart E. Grummon

and Edward S. Crocker

2nd Secretary-Cabot Coville Assistant Naval Attache and Assistant Naval Attache for Air Lt. (j. g.) Stephen Jurika, Jr., U.S.N.

Assistant Military Attache and Asst. Military Attache for Air Capt. Robin B. Pape, U.S.A.

Assistant Naval Attache-Lt. Daniel

J. Mc Callum, U.S.N. Assistant Commercial

Donald W. Smith

Attache-

3rd Secretaries-Frank A, Schuler,

Max W. Schmidt and James Espy Attaches-Glen W. Bruner, Ralph J.

Blake and J. Dixon Edwards

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The capital of Japan is situated on Tokyo Bay, on the East coast of apan. 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 con- 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