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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt:...for these purposes did not burden the local governments very much. Table II--Expansion Of Revenue And Expenditures Of Local Communities 1 Post, p. 151. aOther items were the expenses of the Imperial family, the Cabinet, the Privy Council, the Imperial Diet, the Foreign Office, the Home Office, the Judicial Office, the Formosan Expense fund, etc. Table V.--Cost Of Improvement And Construction Of Railways And Method Of Defrayal a This table is not intended to be exhaustive as it includes only the special statistics given out for publication. Under " miscellaneous " the expenses of u, 01 tne construction of fortresses at Kielung and Pescadores, and also the miscellaneous expenses of the army department are included. the naval bureau, » The manifold purposes of the Industrial bonds are shown in Table VIII. Table VIII.--Details Of Industrial Bonds For Formosan Development Table IX.--Ratio Of Actual Expenditures For Formosan Development, I896-1903 Table X.--Revenue For Post-bellum Enterprises And Annual Balance Table XII.--percentage Of Increase In Expenditures For Education, Sanitation, Industry And Bond Issue CHAPTER III EFFECTS ON THE MONEY MARKET At the time of the Sino-Japanese War, our economic world bore the burden of war expenses amounting to about 236 million yen and met the issue of 100 million yen of war bonds. Such an enormous bond issue--and during war time too--had never been heard of before in Japanese history. So the government was careful not to burden the people too heavily, and by employing the Bank of Japan devised a suitable and effective financial policy whereby financial circles were enabled to pass quite tranquilly through the war. When diplomatic negotiations between Japan and China assumed a serious aspect, in June, 1894,...