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amounting to 146S2,S1e yen in value, against 46.7S4,72O yen by the United | States, while Italy took raw silk to | the value of 12,261,3S3 yen. England. | 5G4,94S yen, and Russia ZIG, ,759 yen. The | total exports from Japan to the United ! States in 1881 were 11.156, 4G4 yen in va ! lue, being 36.5 per cent of the total ex- | ports Of that year and in 1902 were So,292,So5 yen, or 31.O6 per cent of the | total exports.
 Japan's imports from the United States have grown with even greater | rapidity than her exports to the Unit ] cd States. In 1881 they amounted to but l,7S1,10S yen and in 1900 had reach l ed 62,761,196 yen in value. Propor- l tionately they have grown with much greater rapidity than the total impor- tations of Japan. our share of her inn port trade having increased from 572 per cent in 1881 to 1791 per cent in 1902, while the United Kingdom. our principal competitor in that market. which furnished, in 1881, 5257 per cent of the total imports of Japan. supplied In 1902, 1S.53 per cent A detailed ex- animation of the supplies furnished by the United States to Japan can per haps be better made from our own standpoint measured in dollars. In the fiscal year 1892 our total export of domestic merchandise to Japan amounted to s3.2sS.2S2 and in 1902 to S2l 139,726. Of this total, the largest item of export was raw cotton. which aggregated S9,G5s, ,290 the next largest item being illuminating oil, with a to- tai of $5,195, 665.
 Third in rank is manufactures of iron and steel, with a total of s1.923.- 6O1, other important Iterls being breadstuffs, s1,296,6 ,615; provisions. s1s6.- 337; scientific instruments, s21i.734; leather and manufactures, S322 729: tobacco and manufactures. S5Oa e21. clocks and watches. s115,3S6 paper and manufactures thereof, $1S7, ,S6O; Iubri- eating oil,. 1S7,1sS, and parafin. s3l1.- 92O; while many othtr articles of less importance have found place in mar kets of Japan. Taking up the great class of iron and steel and examining Its details, it is found that the exports or locomotive engines in 1902 amount ed to S129,352 in value, builders hard ware. s1O6,6j1; sewing machines, sl5.- 9SO; firearms, s9.513; car wheels. s11.- s55; other machinery, s734,696; and mis- cellaneous manufactures of iron and steel, s915. .4EO.
 The exports of raw cotton have grown from but sS5,211 in 1890 to so.- O2S,2SO in 1902. Illumiuat ting oil, the exports of which amounted in 1890 to S3'559,395 in value, showed in 1902 q total of $5,195,665, despite the active competition of Russian and Sumaran petroleum, and the further fact that Japan is now herself supplying a part or her consumption of illuminating oil. Exports of flour increased from S127.- l2O Tn 1890 to $1,279, ,SS0 in 1902. This increase is due evidently to a growing disposition among the Japanese 60 con- sume more of this class of food rather than to rely upon rice, as in former years, since the number of foreigners III Japan other than Chinese and kor- cans amount to less than 1000, and has not materially increased during the period in which our expor+s of -four to that country have increased sevenfold
 In paper and manufactures thereof our export trade with Japan has grown very rapidly, the total exports In the class being, in 1S9G $1 .6O6; in lS9b, SlOl26, and in 1902, 187, ,S6O. In- struments for scientific purposes in creased from s9,441 in 1890 to S34. 600 in lS94, and S314,7S4 in 1902 In 1890 the value of the canned beef exported from thls country to Japan was 1.212: in l9O2 the total was SS,399; while exports or pickled beef advanced from SS39 in lS9O to $3,5S6 in 1902 Leather and manufactures of leather find a steady demand in Japan owing to the fact that the number of cattle and other animals whose skins are used for tan- ming is comparatively small; the total number of cattle in Japan, according to the last census, being but 1,2S2. .341, or 2S.G2 for each 1000 inhabitants. EXportdtion of cotton cloths to la
 pan have fallen by reason of the rap;d increase in the manufacture of cotton cloth in that country, that total for l902 being but $4SS03 against s141. .264 in lS91. Meantime, however, exporta- tons or raw cotton to Japan have ra- pldly increased. being, as already in- dlcated, S9,05S,2J in 1902 against sS5. 2!l in 1890. This is largely due to the Increase in the manufacture Of cotton goods in Japan, though American cot ton has grown in popularity with the 1 manufacturers there within the past few years. Experience has shown
 them that cotton from the United | states IS more satisfactory for use in manufacturing than that which Japan
 had been accustomed 10 obtain from India and China, the sta2le in Ameri-