The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, January 27, 1910. JAPAN’S PROGRESS.
Bv comparing the Japan of 50 years ago with the Japan of to day, it will be seen, says Count Okuma, that she has gained considerably in the extent of her territory, as well as in her population, which now numbers nearly fifty millions. Her Government has become constitutional not only in name, but in fact, and her national education has attained to a high degree of excellence. In commerce and industry, the emblems of peace, she has also made rapid strides, until her import and export trades together amounted in 1907 to the enormous sum of 926,000,000 yen (^94. 5 77> 000 )i an increase of 84,000,000 yen (.£8,606,000) on the previous year. Her general progress during the short space of half a century has been so sudden and swift that it presents a spectacle rare in the history ol the world. This leap forward is the result of the stimulus which the country received on coming into contact with the civilisation of Europe and America and may well, in its broad sense, be regarded as a boon conferred by foreign intercourse.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 804, 27 January 1910, Page 2
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192The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, January 27, 1910. JAPAN’S PROGRESS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 804, 27 January 1910, Page 2
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