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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE
  1. Port Hamilton and Port Lazareff affair, 574, 575
  2. Port Lazareff, attempted seizure by Russians of, 574
  3. Ports, opening of, 143, 146
  4. Possiet Bay, 173
  5. Postal Congress at Lisbon, 563; at Paris, 563; at Vienna, 563; at Washington, 563
  6. Postal service:
  7. Classification of offices, 561
  8. Inland parcels post, 560
  9. Letters, annual number of, 561, 562
  10. Military, 563
  11. Parcels post, 563
  12. Postal orders, 563–565
  13. Postal savings banks, 565
  14. Post-offices, number of, 561, 562
  15. Routes, 562
  16. Sapporo in, 562
  17. Tariff, 558, 561
  18. Telegraph and, fusion of, 561
  19. Telegraph, see that title
  20. Postal Union, Universal, joined by Japan, 559, 563
  21. Po-tieng, Tai-in-kun confined at, 187
  22. Powers, Japanese treaty relations with, see under names of Powers
  23. Printers’ Association, 457–459
  24. Printing bureau, improvement in paper manufacture, 414
  25. Printing, tax on business of, 350
  26. Privy Council, see under Constitution
  27. Press, Chinese, 550, 551
  28. Press, Japanese:
  29. Circulation of newspapers, 555
  30. Early newspapers, editing of, 550–552; circulation of, 552
  31. First daily newspaper, 553
  32. Lady journalists, 556
  33. Law, press, the, 556
  34. News agencies, 555
  35. Statesmen, connection with the, 556
  36. Yellow, the, 554, 555
  37. Zumoto, Mr., on, 550–557
  38. Prisoners, see Criminals
  39. Prisons:
  40. Local, support of, 517
  41. Maintenance of, 511
  42. Number of, 510
  43. Officials, number of, 510, 511; salaries of, 511, 517; training of, 512, 513
  44. Revenue and expenditure of, 517, 518
  45. Sanitary condition, 515, 516
  46. System, 509–519
  47. Products, marine, 428–430; export of, 442
  48. Property, protection of, 42
  49. ‘Protection forests,’ 426
  50. Prussia, Japanese treaty with, for open ports, 143–146
  51. Public opinion, consideration of, 2; Shogunate, attitude towards, 26
  52. Pumpelly, Mr., American mining engineer, 445
  53. Putiatin, Admiral, 150
  54. Quicksilver, output for 1901, 449
  55. Rabakka, Cape of, 174
  56. Raffles, Sir Stamford, reference to, 275
  57. Rails, import value, 408; production of, 438
  58. Railways:
  59. Business of, tax on, 350
  60. Companies, principal:
  61. Hokkaido Tanko, 486, 487
  62. Kanan, 487
  63. Kyushyu, 486, 487
  64. Nippon Tetsudo Kwaisha, 485, 487
  65. Nishinari, 487
  66. O-u, 486
  67. Ryugasaki, 487
  68. Sano, 487
  69. Sanyo, 486
  70. Shinyetsu, 486
  71. Tokkaido, 486
  72. Construction, cost of, 487, 488
  73. Enterprise in, suspension advised, 314
  74. Government, 486–488, 490
  75. Inuzuka, Mr. K., on Japanese railways, 485–495
  76. Lines, principal:
  77. Bisai, 488
  78. Chuyo, 488
  79. Chyuyetsu, 488
  80. Formosan, 584, 585, 587
  81. Hokkaido, 459, 486, 488
  82. Kanan, 488
  83. Kobe-Osaka, opening of, 485
  84. Kobe-Shimonoseki, 486
  85. Kyoto, 488
  86. Kyushyu, 436, 458, 486
  87. Moji-Yatsushiro, 486
  88. Muroran-Shibetsu, 486
  89. Nakazendo, 356
  90. Nanao, 488
  91. Naoyetsu-Nuttare, 486
  92. Nippon, 455, 458
  93. Nishinari, 488
  94. Sanyo, 486
  95. Shimbashi-Kobe, 486
  96. Shinagawa Akabane, 486
  97. Sobu, 488
  98. Takasaki-Naoyetsu, 486
  99. Tokkaido, 486
  100. Tokyo-Yokohama railway, origin of, 485
  101. Torisu-Nagasaki, 486
  102. Trans-Siberian, 471
  103. Ueno-Aomori, 486
  104. Ueno-Takasaki, 486