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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE
- Bake, naval station, 133
- Baken-chiu, 187
- Bakin, romance writer, 545
- Bakufu, legal system of, 499–502
- Banbetsu division of population, 286
- Banjo, gunboat, 127, 129
- Banking system, growth of, 361–379
- Banking system, the, by Mr. Yamamoto, 379–381
- Bank-notes, tax on issue of, 353
- Banks:
- Clearing-houses, establishment and working of, 362, 377
- Kinds: Government, 365
- Local Industrial, 363, 364
- Private, 379
- Number of, and amount of capital in, 1890–1899, 399
- Principal: Agricultural and Industrial, establishment of, 363, 364, 374; lines of business, 375
- Crédit Foncier, 399
- Fifteenth National, 357–359
- Formosa, Bank of, statistics regarding, 364, 593 598; establishment of, 375, 376; lines of business, 376; system of banking, 593–598
- Hokkaido, Bank of, statistics regarding, 364; establishment of, 376
- Hypothec Bank of Japan, lines of business, 372, 373
- Industrial Bank of Japan, establishment of, 363–364; lines of business, 373–374; foreign capital introduced, 411
- Japan, Bank of: Administration of, 370–371; business transacted, 348, 368–370; capital of, 364, 366, 367; establishment of, 363, 365, 366; finance of, 318, 331, 332, 337; Government, loan to, 358; issue, sole privilege of, 362–370; notes, law regulating issue of, 367, 368; regulations of the, 363; statistics regarding, 399
- Kokumin Chochick Ginko, 458
- Yokohama Specie Bank, establishment of, 318, 327, 328, 362–364, 371, 372; foreign agent of Bank of Japan, 369, 370; lines of business, 372; statistics regarding, 399
- Banks, Regulations governing: National Bank Regulations, 327–329, 361–363, 377, 378; savings banks, for, 362, 377–378; convertible notes, for, 363, 366; Yokohama Specie Bank, for, 363; Colonial Bank of Hokkaido, for, 376; National Bank Act, 399
- Reorganization of, 336, 337
- Table of, 364
- Banrimaru, ship of Higo clan, 124
- Beer, export of, 442
- Beet-sugar industry, 413, 414
- Belgium, postal service with, 564
- Belgium, trade with, value of, 409, 443
- Bessemer system in mining, 451
- Besshi Copper-mine, 448, 450
- Bills, amount of, cleared in period 1890–1902, 394
- Bimetallism, see under Currency
- Bin-ei-yoku of Bin party, 182, 189, 192
- Bin-ken-ko, death of, 182, 183
- Bin party in Corea, the, 190–194; plot against, 202–204; policy and power of, 175–177, 180–185, 187, 188
- Bin-tai-ko of Bin Party, 182
- Bishu clan, ships of, 123
- Bismarck, Count Herbert, negotiations with, 210
- Biwa, Lake, railway from, 485
- Black, Mr., editor, 553
- Black Stream, the, 429
- Blacklead, output for 1901, 450
- Blue-Books, non-existence of, 218
- Boards:
- Audit, establishment of, 348, 503; functions of, 61, 62
- Codification, Board of, 213
- Colonial, attached to War Office, 114
- Exploration, Board of, 151
- Bokkeiziu, Minister of Right, 177
- Boku-ei-ko, Commander of the Guards, 193, 195; Corean Minister to Japan, 188, 189; flight to Japan and America, and return, 201; Kin party, member of, 181, 182, 192–195
- Boku-tei-yo, Corean Minister to Washington, 199
- Bon, festival of, 289
- Bonds:
- Consolidated Public, 358
- Exchequer, issue of, 335
- Government, issue of, 356; see also Loans, Public
- Kinsatu Exchange, the, 327, 357–359
- Nakasendo Railway, 356–359
- Supplementary Railway, 357–359
- Voluntary Capitalized Pension, 356–360
- Bon-ichi, ceremonies, religious, 289
- Botoni, poetess, 255
- Bourses, tax on, 352
- Boxer disturbances:
- Chinese apology for, reply to, 17
- Expenditure entailed by, 323
- Japanese help in suppressing, 575
- Results of 335
- Brinkley, Captain, Japanese art, quoted on, 522