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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE
- Port Hamilton and Port Lazareff affair, 574, 575
- Port Lazareff, attempted seizure by Russians of, 574
- Ports, opening of, 143, 146
- Possiet Bay, 173
- Postal Congress at Lisbon, 563; at Paris, 563; at Vienna, 563; at Washington, 563
- Postal service:
- Classification of offices, 561
- Inland parcels post, 560
- Letters, annual number of, 561, 562
- Military, 563
- Parcels post, 563
- Postal orders, 563–565
- Postal savings banks, 565
- Post-offices, number of, 561, 562
- Routes, 562
- Sapporo in, 562
- Tariff, 558, 561
- Telegraph and, fusion of, 561
- Telegraph, see that title
- Postal Union, Universal, joined by Japan, 559, 563
- Po-tieng, Tai-in-kun confined at, 187
- Powers, Japanese treaty relations with, see under names of Powers
- Printers’ Association, 457–459
- Printing bureau, improvement in paper manufacture, 414
- Printing, tax on business of, 350
- Privy Council, see under Constitution
- Press, Chinese, 550, 551
- Press, Japanese:
- Circulation of newspapers, 555
- Early newspapers, editing of, 550–552; circulation of, 552
- First daily newspaper, 553
- Lady journalists, 556
- Law, press, the, 556
- News agencies, 555
- Statesmen, connection with the, 556
- Yellow, the, 554, 555
- Zumoto, Mr., on, 550–557
- Prisoners, see Criminals
- Prisons:
- Local, support of, 517
- Maintenance of, 511
- Number of, 510
- Officials, number of, 510, 511; salaries of, 511, 517; training of, 512, 513
- Revenue and expenditure of, 517, 518
- Sanitary condition, 515, 516
- System, 509–519
- Products, marine, 428–430; export of, 442
- Property, protection of, 42
- ‘Protection forests,’ 426
- Prussia, Japanese treaty with, for open ports, 143–146
- Public opinion, consideration of, 2; Shogunate, attitude towards, 26
- Pumpelly, Mr., American mining engineer, 445
- Putiatin, Admiral, 150
- Quicksilver, output for 1901, 449
- Rabakka, Cape of, 174
- Raffles, Sir Stamford, reference to, 275
- Rails, import value, 408; production of, 438
- Railways:
- Business of, tax on, 350
- Companies, principal:
- Hokkaido Tanko, 486, 487
- Kanan, 487
- Kyushyu, 486, 487
- Nippon Tetsudo Kwaisha, 485, 487
- Nishinari, 487
- O-u, 486
- Ryugasaki, 487
- Sano, 487
- Sanyo, 486
- Shinyetsu, 486
- Tokkaido, 486
- Construction, cost of, 487, 488
- Enterprise in, suspension advised, 314
- Government, 486–488, 490
- Inuzuka, Mr. K., on Japanese railways, 485–495
- Lines, principal:
- Bisai, 488
- Chuyo, 488
- Chyuyetsu, 488
- Formosan, 584, 585, 587
- Hokkaido, 459, 486, 488
- Kanan, 488
- Kobe-Osaka, opening of, 485
- Kobe-Shimonoseki, 486
- Kyoto, 488
- Kyushyu, 436, 458, 486
- Moji-Yatsushiro, 486
- Muroran-Shibetsu, 486
- Nakazendo, 356
- Nanao, 488
- Naoyetsu-Nuttare, 486
- Nippon, 455, 458
- Nishinari, 488
- Sanyo, 486
- Shimbashi-Kobe, 486
- Shinagawa Akabane, 486
- Sobu, 488
- Takasaki-Naoyetsu, 486
- Tokkaido, 486
- Tokyo-Yokohama railway, origin of, 485
- Torisu-Nagasaki, 486
- Trans-Siberian, 471
- Ueno-Aomori, 486
- Ueno-Takasaki, 486