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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE
Percentage.
Silk goods
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39.6
Cotton goods
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13.7
Coal
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6.6
Metals and metal manufactures
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6.3
Tea
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4.5
Matches
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2.8
Chemicals, dyes, and paints
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2.5
Marine products
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2.4
Grains
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1.7
Mats
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1.6
Straw braid
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1.3
Porcelain
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1.1
Others
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15.9

Total
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100.0

The above are the proportions of the principal goods in 1903, and from this it will be seen that raw silk, silk tissues, and cotton yarns together, occupy more than half of the whole exports. Of these, the exportation of cotton yarn, which now ranks second in value, is of quite recent origin. It is only eleven years since Japan began to sell cotton yarn abroad, during which time the yearly export has leaped up to the sum of £3,000,000.

Although the cotton industry is no doubt the most successful element, there are few articles of export which have not doubled their amounts during the last decade. The following figures show the relative proportion of increase during the eleven years 1893–1903:

Exports.

1893. 1903.
Cotton yarn
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1.00 530.94
Cigarettes
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1.00 069.26
Paper
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1.00 044.80
Green tea (basket fire)
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1.00 004.75
Salt
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1.00 005.86
Beer
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[1]1.00[1] 007.76
Saké
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1.00 015.40
Camphor
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1.00 002.70
Menthol crystal
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1.00 014.68
Sulphur
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1.00 003.96
Copper
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1.00 009.21
Iron manufactures
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1.00 015.61
Furs
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1.00 005.25
Raw silk
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1.00 002.64
Habutæ (silk tissue)
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1.00 008.72
Kaiki (silk tissue)
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[1]1.00[1] 004.28
Gray shirtings
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[1]1.00[1] 013.31
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Figures of 1896 are taken