[197] From Chamberlain’s “Things Japanese.” [198] From “Japan and America.” [199] From the “Japan Mail.” [200] From a Report by U. S. Consul-General Bellows, Yokohama. [201] From the “Japan Times.” [202] The first figures in each group represent the end of 1896, and the second figures the end of 1900. The grand total of operatives had increased in 1909 to 692,221—240,864 males and 451,357 females. [203] From a Report by U. S. Consul Lyon, Kōbe. [204] From “Japan and America,” by Walter J. Ballard. This account, with a few changes, is retained because of the impressive witness it bears to the progress of Japan. (Ed.) [205] With board. [206] From the “Japan Times,” revised. [207] From the “Japan Mail.” [208] In 1910, it was over 14,000,000 _yen_. [209] From the “Japan Mail.” [210] From official sources. [211] Beginning 660 B. C. [212] Northern Dynasty. [213] Southern Dynasty. [214] Empresses in Italics. Bracketed names (Nos. 15 and 99) are omitted from some lists. [215] _Go_ is a prefix signifying the second of the name. [216] From summary of “A Brief Sketch of the History of the Political Parties in Japan,” by A. H. Lay, in the “Japan Mail.” [217] Professor Griffin, in discussion of Mr. Lay’s paper. [218] From the “Japan Times.” [219] From “The Real Triumph of Japan” (Seaman). [220] From the “Japan Mail.” [221] In 1910, it was more than 600,000 tons. [222] In 1908, it was more than 47,000 men. [223] From the “Japan Times.” [224] In 1910, it was more than 1,600,000 tons. [225] See also Elgar’s paper on “Japanese Shipping” in the Transactions Japan Society, London. [226] From the “Japan Times.” [227] From 28th Annual Report of the Minister of State for Education. [228] Condensed from “The Chautauquan,” April, 1902. [229] From the “Japan Mail” and the “Japan Times.” [230] Later statistics give respectively 83,638—66,689—32,246. [231] From the “Kōbe Herald.” [232] From the “Japan Mail.” [233] Completed in 1908. [234] U.S. Consul Davidson. [235] For details concerning what the Japanese have accomplished in Formosa, see Takekoshi’s “Japanese Rule in Formosa.”