From │Beans, pease, and pulse Oil-cakes China │ 1,306,103 4,064,198 │ 3,524,138 8,656,775 ───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────── Korea │ 777,151 5,671 │ 2,254,899 12,331 ───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────── Russian Asia │ 545 345,022 │ 1,505 1,448,868 ───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────── French India │ 742 │ 2,178 ───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────── The United States │ 281 │ 2,405 ───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────── Other countries │ 545 846 │ 1,582 3,738 ═══════════════════════╪═══════════════════════════════════════════════ Total │ 2,086,367 4,415,737 │ 5,786,707 10,121,712 An explanation is necessary that, to all probability, much of the oil-cakes from Russian Asia was reëxported from Manchuria. In 1903, beans and oil-cakes were imported to the value of, respectively, 7,993,000 and 10,739,000 _yen_. In considering all these facts as a whole, attention is called to a point of immense importance, that Manchuria and Korea supply Japan with necessaries of life, and receive in return, in the main, useful goods, instead of wares of luxury. We shall have occasion further to develop this point. Let us now take a general survey of the position Japan holds in the trade relations of Korea and Manchuria. In Korea, whence the Chinese merchants withdrew during the China-Japan war of 1894–5 and were replaced by the Japanese traders,[28] it is Japan alone of all trading nations which enjoys a large share both in the import and export trade, as is suggested in the following table:— Japan’s export Total import of Japan’s import Total export of to Korea Korea from Korea Korea 1902 10,554,000 _yen_ (13,823,000 _yen_) 7,958,000 _yen_ (8,460,000 _yen_) 1903 11,764,000 (18,207,000) 8,912,000 (9,472,000)