From │ 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 British │ 2,663,087 53,827 249,344 220,650 1,793,362 India │ │ 11,642,416 174,507 973,747 876,057 7,530,356 ───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── China │ 967,216 60,323 83,998 227,234 90,401 │ 3,989,422 231,625 327,673 867,272 341,689 ───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Korea │ 649,570 436,716 1,131,787 1,456,661 891,186 │ 2,704,887 1,689,909 4,694,166 6,009,641 3,961,312 ───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Dutch │ 403 Indies │ │ 1,816 ───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── French │ 6,445,390 956,142 726,859 919,774 1,324,789 India │ │ 25,762,726 3,354,095 2,739,752 3,199,420 4,651,395 ───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Siam │ 969,413 143,575 94,530 287,594 409,307 │ 4,114,065 510,007 284,178 926,486 1,265,970 ───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Other │ 1,576 9 58 25 27 countries│ │ 6,290 21 200 82 94 ═══════════╪═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Total │ 11,696,252 1,650,592 2,286,979 3,111,938 4,509,072 │ 48,219,810 5,960,166 9,021,536 11,878,958 17,750,817 As will be seen in this table, much rice comes also from Saigon and Bangkok, to which, however, Japan hardly exports anything. In Korea, on the contrary, the greater her exportation of rice, the larger her purchasing power of the goods from the country to which the rice goes. In the case of beans and oil-cakes, Manchuria and Korea occupy in the list of the importation of these articles into Japan an even more important place than is the case with wheat or rice, as will be seen in the following table:— Beans and oil-cakes imported into Japan in _picul_ = 133⅓ lbs. av. 1902,[27] _yen_ = 49.8 cents.