A Handbook of Modern Japan

by Ernest W. Clement

[203] From a Report by U. S. Consul Lyon, Kōbe.

[204] From “Japan and America,” by Walter J. Ballard. This account, with a few changes, is retained because of the impressive witness it bears to the progress of Japan. (Ed.)

[205] With board.

[206] From the “Japan Times,” revised.

[207] From the “Japan Mail.”

[208] In 1910, it was over 14,000,000 yen.

[209] From the “Japan Mail.”

[210] From official sources.

[211] Beginning 660 B. C.

[212] Northern Dynasty.