Marriages, [72]

Matches, [96]

Mercantile Marine, [129]

Metals, [21], [157]

Metal work, [153]
workers, [156]
industries, decline in, [157]

Metallurgists, [152]

Mikado, [50], [51]; also see [Emperor]

Mineral wealth, [21], [157]

Minister, British, at Japanese Court, [239]

Missionaries in Japan, [46], [47], [239], [256]
in China, [225]