The Japanese commission for the exposition took great care not to accept for exhibition any articles which had mere virtue of novelty, without practical value, or any articles not produced in large volume. The idea of the Government in employing such discrimination was to so plan the exhibition that it would leave some lasting effects after the exposition upon the world's trade and commerce. The exhibition of matters relating to education was executed under the direct supervision of the department of education, and was so planned as to make it represent a complete system of the education now in vogue in Japan. In regard to the exhibitions of mines, fish, forestry, agriculture, and horticulture, the department of agriculture and commerce exercised the authority of deciding what articles should be displayed. The arrangement of articles exhibited in various departments of the exposition was made so that those independent of the Japan Exhibits Association were arranged by individual exhibitors under the supervision of the Japanese commission, while others were set out in proper order by the association. There was no department or palace in which Japan did not exhibit. Displays on an especially elaborate scale, however, could be found in the following eleven palaces, namely: Palaces of Education and Social Economy, Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, Manufactures, Varied Industries, Transportation, Mines, Forestry, Fish, and Game, Electricity, and Agriculture. The total area of space of the Japanese sections in these departments was distributed among different sections as follows: Square feet. Palace of Education ............................... 6,299 Palace of Fine Arts ............................... 6,825 Palace of Liberal Arts ............................ 400 Palace of Industry ................................ 27,384 Palace of Manufactures ............................ 54,737 Palace of Transportation .......................... 14,160 Palace of Electricity ............................. 1,100 Palace of Mines ................................... 6,903 Palace of Forestry, Fish, and Game ................ 2,982 Palace of Agriculture ............................. 8,667 ------- Total ...................................... 129,457