development of the Japsnexe merchan!
A number of statistics relative to, the drating have appeared in tie Tokio Keizai. Tt was in 1870 or thereabouts, the journal fecalle, that the Japanese began to tura their attention to the carrying trade, in the modern sense of the term, but its growth was slow until the Chinese War' 0f.1894-5. The following table gives the figures for the eleven years from 1892 to 1902 inclusive Tons.
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