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officers, and has the direct control over the Staff College and Land-Surveying Department.

The Director-General of Military Education commands the Inspectors-General for the Cavalry, the Field Artillery, the Garrison Artillery, the Engineers, and the Army Service Corps respectively, and arranges for the uniformity and improvement of the whole military education.

The Inspectors-General are responsible for the education in their own branches.

The Director-General of Military Education has charge over the following schools:

The Artillery and Engineers School; the ‘Toyama’ School (including the Army Music School); the Military School; the Central Cadet School; the Local Cadet School; the Military Riding School; the Field Artillery School for Shooting; the Garrison Artillery Shooting School.

The whole country of Japan is divided into three Army Corps Presidencies, and each Presidency is divided into four Divisional Districts, and each Divisional District is divided into four to eight Regimental Districts, making twelve Divisional Districts and fifty-two Regimental Districts in all.

Some of the Divisional Districts have Special Military Districts, which are called ‘Kei-bi-Taiku,’ to the number of one to five, besides the Regimental Districts. The whole of the Special Military Districts in Japan number seven.

Until before the Chino-Japanese War the army was composed as follows:

1 division of Guards; 6 divisions of the Line; 2 regiments of Garrison Artillery.

After the war they were increased by the following additions:

6 divisions of the Line; 2 brigades of Cavalry; 2 brigades of Field Artillery; 3 regiments and 4 battalions of Garrison Artillery; 1 Railway Battalion; Gendarmes, etc.

Consequently, the present establishment of the army is as follows:

Guards, 1 division; Line, 12 divisions; Cavalry, 2 brigades; Field Artillery, 2 brigades; Garrison Artillery, 5 regiments and 4 battalions; Railway Battalion, 1; Infantry (Special Military District), 1 battalion; Formosan Garrisons, 3 brigades (combined); Gendarmes, 15 districts.

The peace establishment of one division consists of:

Infantry, 2 brigades; Cavalry, 1 regiment; Field Artillery, 1 regiment; Engineers, 1 battalion; Army Service Corps, 1 battalion.

Infantry, Garrison Artillery, and Engineers carry the 6 millimetre infantry rifle of the ‘30th year’ pattern, which superseded the Murata rifle, and the Cavalry and Army Service Corps bear