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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE
Raw Silk.

Although the method of production of silk has been recently very much improved, yet the quantity of silk exported has shown comparatively very little increase. This is due to the increase of the export of rough finished silk goods, such as habutai, silk handkerchiefs, etc. In value silk is the most important of our exports, and in 1899 the value of the raw silk exported was calculated to be 62,000,000 yen, the quantity exported every year being from 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 kin.

Amount of Raw Silk Produced and Exported.

Year. Amount
Produced in
Japan.		 Amount
Exported to
Foreign
Countries.		 Difference
between the
Amounts
Produced and
Exported.		 Percentage. Value of Export.
Remained
in Japan.		 Ex-
ported.		 Total Value. Price per
Picul.
Kin. Kin. Kin. Per cent. Per cent. Yen. Yen.
1890 15,270,450 2,110,315 3,160,135 60 40 13,859,338 1,657
1891 16,808,888 5,325,148 1,483,740 22 78 29,356,338 1,551
1892 16,850,550 5,406,856 1,443,694 21 79 36,299,743 1,671
1893 17,709,713 3,712,213 3,997,500 52 48 28,167,411 1,759
1894 18,104,894 5,484,059 2,620,835 32 68 39,353,155 1,718
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1895 10,020,694 5,810,046 4,210,648 42 58 47,866,256 1,824
1896 19,017,000 3,918,994 5,098,006 57 43 28,830,601 1,736
1897 19,609,756 6,919,861 2,689,895 28 72 55,630,460 1,804
1898 19,248,419 4,837,329 4,411,090 48 52 42,047,411 1,869
1899 10,964,013 5,946,911 5,017,102 46 54 62,627,721 1,053

Note.—1 kin=1⅓ pounds approximately.

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