Tokyo, June 25.
The Finance Ministry has made rub lie some interesting statistics regarding the development of Japan's foreign trade ince 1868, when the total of exports and imports was Y.26,246,000; the exports amounting to Y.16,500,000, the excess of exports over imports being 'Y,10,696,000. In the 58 years, the trade has increased by 187 times, as Inst year's total of the imports and exports was Y.4,878,247,000, of which the former totalled ¥.2,572,- 658,000, while the latter amounted to ¥.2,305,589,000.
In these figures, the colonial trade is not included.
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