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 It will be observed that this sum is approximately one-tenth of the accumulated capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. That is what might have been expected, for, speaking roughly, money is ten times as valuable in Japan as in England.

With regard to the income derived by Japan from her capital, the following figures are deduced from the best statistics: —

Concerning the distribution of wealth in Japan, it has only recently become possible to form a trustworthy estimate. Careful investigations now show, however, that the number of men possessing property valued at fifty thousand pounds sterling and upwards, does not exceed 441. Comparing this record with American statistics, for example, it appears that whereas there are 3,828 persons in the United States credited with possessing at least two hundred thousand pounds, or in other words one for every twenty thousand inhabitants, there is in Japan only one owner of fifty thousand pounds for every hundred thousand