Arizona republican., 1899-08-22
Affect 5000 Foreigners Now
 Residing in Japan.
NO EXTRA TERRITORIALITY
The Fifteen New Treaties Which Have Lately Gone Into Effect Bring CiiizeaS Of Other Nations Now Living in Japan Under inc Laws Of inc Empire - Other Changes Effected.

Washington, Aug. 1.-(Special.)- Ov1T ore tlcvsanI citizens of the United States, two thousand English msn and about one thousand German and French citizens wil be directly affected by the new order of things in Japan by which ext1a-teln.itoriality disappears and forTiign residents are made subject to dhe laws and business regulations of that empire F1I,v 1000 of lG.le 10000 foreigners now 70. siding in Japan will be thus af.o.te5 by this feature of the. fifteen new trc,t / ies which have abandoned con -, ar c3JulS arif eNt1a teT1itoafaI1ty and made tho citizens of the fifteen oA9un- tries in question sttDjeet to the IalkA of Japan when residing in that couutfy. The total number of foreigners .T5egfd- ing in Japan, as shown by a Inc lO- graph on Japan just prepared b.y the treasury bureau of statistics waSEk0n January 1, 1898, 10.531, as agFt 9.23S in 1897 and S.246 in 1896. n this number in 1898. 5,2O6, or II
 onSelnif. were Chinese, 2,11S EngT4 1.O76 American. 523 Germans, N French. 297 Russians, 155 Corsams. 1t Po15ugese, 104 Dutch, and the renai M der divided among other countries numbers less than 100 each.
 Of the 1o,531 foreigners residing n. Japan in 1898. 9,53S were classed as merchants ap1 other Plofessions,v while of the 1,016 from the United States so were claSsed as .srsJcharsss and other professions. Of the 2,11S British subjects. 1,761 were thus class ed and of the 523 Germans, 453 were so classified
 The number of foreigners residing in Japan is only about oIre-siXtl as great as the number of Japanese residents in foreign Gou;95rieS. The Japane:e census of December 31. 1897, and it is Interesting to observe that the JapEial- e.se take "a, census each year showed 5S,7S5 Japanes!e residing in Othe- colln- 't1tes. Of this number. 7.640 were In the United States and 27,354 in Hawaii, so that sixty per cent Of the Japanese now residing abroad are subject 70 she jurisdiction of the United States. Of the ren.a1ning 23, ,791 Japanese resid- ing abroad. 13,615 were in CorAi, 5,599 in England and English coloaies, 2.S61 in Russia and Russian colonies. and 1 16s in China. Of the T,G40 re- siding in tie United States, PITS wel'A students ard T29 merchants.
 It IS interesting to observe that the disposition of the Japanese is apparent ly to look almost exclusively 10 the United States i'll educational matters as the to,.aI number of Japanese stu dents residing abroad. as shown by the census figures. was 2,465, and Of this number. 2.1TS were in the United Saates. 129 in Germany, 1T in Russia and Russian colonies, 46 in England and EE,g..sh colonies. 21 in China, II in Corea and 10 in France.
 The new relaticris in which the for eigners in Japan stand to its citizens. laws and government is especially i'm portaa9t because of the unusual rela- tion they hold to it's foreign commerce. Both the import and export business of Japan are conducted largely by for efgners residing in that country. More than 66 per cent of the eXportatiOils from Japan and more than 67 per cent of its fmporta.tiors are condT-aed by foreigners. Of the total exports from Japan in 1898, over 0I,O00O00 ven were sent abroad by foreign mer- Flants doing business in that coun.ry md 55.OOOOOO by Japanese merchants, while of the tc'llG imports of the year. 1S4.OOO,OO0 yen in value were imported by foreigners and 9O,0OO'Ooo yen in valIls. by Japanese merchants.
 That the Japanese have proved apt pupils in the study of foreign com merce as an ant is shown by an eN- of the record of Japan's foreign trade dllrirg the past few years. 1883 only 4.S5 per cent of rhe imports into Japan and 14.4 per cent ef the exports were made by Japanese By 1888, the percentage of importations made by Japanese merchants had increased to IFS per :ent by 1894 they had reached 29.2 )er cent. ard in 1898, 32.6 per cent of he total imports was made by Japan sse merchants. Meantime. their share n the exportation business increased