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Public Works Loan is 105,746,290 yen. This sum, together with the 10,000,000 yen worth of bonds which are to be issued for the adjustment of pensions according to the Law No. 50, 1897, aggregating to 115,746,290 yen, represents the total amount of public loans to be issued in the future.
The outstanding amounts of the public debt, and its ratio per capita at different periods in the past, may be summarized as follows:
When 4,880,000 yen of the foreign loan (bearing 9 per cent. interest) issued in 1870 represented the total amount of national debt, the average rate for one person was only 14 sen 7 rin (3½d.); but since 1872, the old public loan, the new public loan, and some other public loans being issued, the outstanding debts soon reached about 28,000,000 to 55,000,000 yen, the average per capita ratio being from 84 sen 3 rin (1s. 10d.) to 1 yen 62 sen 3 rin (3s. 4d.). Since the issuing of the voluntary capitalized pension bonds of 173,900,000 yen in 1877, the amount of the outstanding debts became about 227,000,000 to 283,000,000 yen, and the average per capita ratio was increased to from 6 to 7 yen (12s. to 14s.). Since the Public Works Loan was issued in 1896, the amounts of public loans were suddenly increased. After 1895 the amounts unredeemed were increased from 300,000,000 to 500,000,000 yen, and the average share per head at the end of 1901 increased to 11.72 yen (23s. 6d.).
According to the present programme of the Government, all the outstanding debts, together with those to be contracted during the fiscal years 1902–1908, will be completely cleared off by the end of the fiscal year 1945.
The redemption of the different outstanding loans is to be completed respectively as follows:
Voluntary Capitalized Pension Bonds |
1903 |
Navy Loan |
1904 |
Consolidated Loan |
1920 |
Old Public Loan |
1921 |
War Loan |
1925 |
Pension Consolidated Loan |
1927 |
Railway Public Loan |
1930 |
Public Works Loan and Hokkaido Railway Loan |
1934 |
Formosan Public Works Loan |
1945 |
The loan for the redemption of paper money is to be converted to a new public loan (bearing 5 per cent. interest, the redemption of which will be completed in the fiscal year 1929).
N.B.—Since the war with Russia began one foreign loan of £10,000,000 and two local loans of £10,000,000 had been raised by June, 1904.