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 MONEY, ETC. — DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES 1025

Money, Weights, and Measures.

The present monetary law came into force from October, 1897, by which gokl standard was adopted. The unit of value is 075 gramme of pure gold, and is called the yen = '2s. O^d., which, however, is not coined. The pieces coined are as follows: — Gold coins (20, 10, and 5 yen pieces), silver coins (50, 20, and 10 sen pieces), nickel coin (5 sen piece), and bronze coins (1 sen and 5 rin pieces). The sen is the hundredth part of a yen, and the rin is the tenth part of a sen. The gold coins are '900 fine, and the silver coins "800 fine. The gold coins formerly issued (20, 10, 5, 2, and 1 yen pieces) are used at double their face value. The one-yen silver coin formerly issued is with- drawn. The old silver 5-sen piece and copper 2, 1, J sen pieces, &c., aie used as formerly.

The Kin =160 momm6 ,, Kwan = 1,000 ,, ,, Siin

,, ShaJcu (10 sun) ,, Ken = 6 shaku

Oh6 = %Oken ,, Hi = 36 cho ., Ri stj.

,, GJid, land measure ,, Koku, liquid

., dry ,, To, liquid ,, -•> dry

= 1 •323 lb. avoirdupois

= 8-267 lbs. ,,

= 1-193 inch.

= 11-930 inches.

= 5 -965 feet.

= yV mile, 5 -4229 chains.

= 2-44 miles.

= 5-9552 sq. miles.

= 2-45 acres.

= 39-7033 gallons.

= 4-9629 bushels.

= 3-9703 gallons.

= 1-9851 peck.

Besides, the system of weights and measures based on the metric system is acknowledged as legal in the following ratios, metre = 3-3 shaku. gram = 0-26667 momme {^^ momm6).

Diplomatic Representatives.

1. Of Japan in Great Britain.

Ambassador. — Katsunosuki Inouy e.

Councillor. — Chozo Koike.

Second Secretaries. — Isaburo Yoshida and Keiichi Yamazaki.

Third Secretary. — Koki Hirota.

Attache. — Setsuza Sawada.

Military Attache. — Colonel Saburo Inagaki.

Naxal Attache. — Captain Abo, I.J.N.

Ohancellors. — Saizo Masheko and Kuramaku Kishi.

Oonsul-General in London. — Takahashi Nakamura.

There are Consuls at Glasgow, Liverpool, and Middlesbrough.

2. Of Great Britain in Japan,

Ambassador and Consul- General. — Sir William Conyngham Greene, K.C.B., appointed October, 1912.

CoimciUor.—'H. M. Rumbold, M.V.O.

Secretaries, — D. Crackanthorpe, N. Henderson and Edmund St. J. Mouson.

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