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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER XXIII | |
| RAILWAYS | |
| BY MR. K. INUZUKA | |
| The First Railway—The Progress of Railway Construction—Government and Private Lines—The Cost of the Railways—The Receipts from Passenger and Goods Traffic—Working Expenses—Distribution of Railways in the Different Islands—The Present Condition | 485 |
| CHAPTER XXIV | |
| THE LEGAL SYSTEM | |
| BY THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE | |
| The Changes since the Feudal System—The Earliest Records—Clan Government—The Centralization of Administration and Adoption of Chinese Ideas—The Board of Ecclesiastical Rites placed on a Level with the Government—Changes leading to the Decline of the Influence of the Central Government—The Bakufu Legal System—‘The People should obey the Law, but should not know the Law’—The Tokugawa Dynasty’s One Hundred Articles—The Restrictions on Foreign Intercourse—The System of Social Policy—The Introduction of Occidental Systems—The Institution of the Senate and Court of Cassation—The Promulgation of the Constitution—The Civil Code—The Commercial Code—The Penal Code—Foreign Influences in the Present Legal System | 496 |
| CHAPTER XXV | |
| POLICE AND PRISONS | |
| I. Police | |
| BY BARON SUYEMATSU | |
| The Police System Part of the State Organization—The General Expenditure, and how it is Met—The Duties of the Police Force—Judicial Police—Policemen are ‘Government Officials,’ not Servants—The Earlier High Standard of the Police Force and its Decline —The Police and Prison College | 505 |
| II. Prisons | |
| PREPARED BY THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE | |
| The Supervision of Prison Administration—The Organization of the Prison System—Governors and Officials—Financial Arrangements—The Training of Officials—The Population of Prisons—Pardons and Paroles—Capital Punishment—Medals and Rewards granted to Prisoners—Disciplinary Punishments—Recent Reforms—Prison Labour—Prison Statistics | 509 |
