Pok-ein, Kudara general, defeats Shiragi troops (660)
Police, doshin
—Board, Danjo-dai, duties taken over by kebiishi
—executive, kebiishi, (810-29)
Poltava, Russian cruiser at Port Arthur
Polygamy in early Japan
Polytheism of early Buddhism
Pontiff, ho-o, title taken by abdicating Emperor
Porcelain
Port Arthur, taken from Chinese (1894); Russian railway; Russian fleet at, crippled by Japanese; Japanese attack on, was it warranted?; fleet further crippled; harbour entrance blocked; movements toward; captured (end of 1904)