1060 JAPAN
rows of lagoon islands (several uninhabited), known respectively as Ratack (with thirteen islands) and Ralick (with eleven islands), first came under German rule in 1885. The population consists of 102 Japanese, 5 Europeans, and 8,901 natives. The chief island and administrative centre is Jaluit ; the most populous island Majeru, with 2,600 inhabitants. Protestant (American) and Catholic missions are at work. There are plantations of coco-palm (1,275 hectares). The chief export is copra.
Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Japan. 1. Official Publications.
Constitution of the Empire of Japan. Tokio, 18S9.
Financial and Economic Annual of Japan. Tokio.
Reports of the various Government Departments. Annual. Tokio.
Resume statistique de I'empire du Japon. Annual. Tokio.
Returns of the Foreign Commerce and Trade of Japan. Annual. Tokio.
statistical Summary of Taiwan. Annual. Issued by the Government.
Etat de la Population de l'Empire du Japan au 31 Decembre, 1913. Tokio, 1910.
Expose general des Resultats du Recensement de la Population de l'Empire du Japon a latin de 1913. Tokio, I916.-Graphiques Statistiques sur l'etat de la Population de l'Empire du Japon. Tokio, 1916.
The Post Bellum Administration in Japan, 1896-1900. Report by Count Matsukata Mayayoshi. Tokio, 1900.
Outlines of the Geology of Japan. Tokio, 1902.— Imperial Geological Survey of Japan. Tokio, 1915.
Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century. Compiled in the Department of Agri- culture and Commerce. London, 1904.
An. Official Guide to Eastern Asia. Compiled by the Imperial Japanese Government Railways. Vol. I., Manchuria and Chosen ; II. and III., Japan ; IV., China. London, 1916.
2. Non-Official Publications.
The Japan Year Book (Takenob and Kawakami). Tokio. Annual.
Recent Economic Development in Japan. Compiled by the Nippon Qinko (Bauk of Japan). Tokio, 1915.
Abbott (J. P.), Japanese Expansion and American Politics. London, 1916.
Adams (V. O.), History of Japan, from the earliest period to the present tiuie. 2 vols. London, 1875.
D'Anethan (Baroness), Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan. London 1912.
Asakawa (K.)., The Early Institutional Life of Japan. Tokio, 1903.
A$ton(Vf. G.), Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to 697 a.d. 2 vols. London, 1897.
Bacon (Alice M.), Japanese Girls and Women. 2d. ed. London, 1905.
Batehelor (John), The Ainu and their Folk-lore. London, 1902.— Sea-Girt Yexo. London, 1902.
Beaulieu (P. Leroy), Renovation de l'Asie (Siberie, Chine, Japon). Paris, 1900. [Eng Trans, the Awakening of the East. London, 1900.]
Beaker (J. E. de), Pointers on Japanese Law. Yokohama, 1916.
Belleiort (Andre), Le Nouveau Japon. Paris, 1919.
Brinkley (F.) (Editor), Japan Described and Illustrated by Native Authorities. London, 1898 — Japan and China: their History, Arts, <fec. 12 vols. London, 1903-04.— A History of the Japanese People. New York. New edition, 1921.
Brown (A. J.), i'tic Mastery of the Far East : The Story of Korea's Transformation and Japan's Rife to Supremacy in the Orient. London, 15)19.
Campbell (W.), Sketches from Formosa. London, 1915.
Clement (E W.), A Short History of Japan. London, 1916.
Coleman (b\), Japan Moves North: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Siberia. London, 1918.
Cordier (II.), liibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs a l'lle Formosa. [Up to end of 1891. Paris, 1893.
Cordonnitr (E. L. V.), The Japanese in Manchuria, 1904. (Russo-Japanese War) 2 vol». London, 1914.
Davtremer (J.), The Japauese Empire and its Economic Conditions. London, 1915.
DavidsonU. W.), The Island of Formosa. London, 1903.
Davis (F. Hadland), Japan. (The Nations' nistories.) London, 1916.
