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and assessed the damage at Yen 380,000,000. Great progress has been made in Tokyo and Yokohama with re-construction work on the most modern lines.

On November 26th, 1930, Japan experienced another serious earthquake, 252 people being killed, 351 injured and over 8,000 buildings were damaged. Though the shock was felt severely in Tokyo the special precautions taken in the rebuilding of the capital fully justified themselves and practically no damage was sustained in the rural districts. The total damage was estimated over twenty million yen.

FOREIGN TRADE FOR 1939

The exports and imports of Japan and Japanese overseas possessions in 1939 totalled Yen 3,932,898,000`and Yen 3,127,498,000 respectively, showing a favourable balance of Yen 805.400,000. Compared with 1938, total trade showed an increase of 23.1 per cent.

The export excess for 1939 represents an increase of Yen 744,850,000 over 1938, in which year Japan had a favourable balance of only Yen 60,550,000. There was thus an increase of as much as 35 per cent in the exports of Japan Proper, but of this Yen 887 million increase the increase in Yen Bloc exports alone were Yen 581 million. The increase in imports last year was Yen 255 million, there being an increase of Yen 115 million in purchases from foreign currency countries, the 1939 aggregate being Yen 2,334 million.

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