1st Edition

The Japan Weekly Mail, Series I: 1870-1899, Part 4, 1885-1889

Edited By Yokahama Archives of History Copyright 2009
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This is the fourth part of the facsimile reprint series of the leading English newspaper published in Yokohama throughout the Meiji era. It represents a complete collection, provided by the Yokohama Archives of History and other institutions. Playing an important role for Meiji Japan’s exchange with western society, the journal contains articles on politics, commerce, and economics, and also on... Read more

Sample articles from the 1885 issues

A Commercial and Political Millstone

A Diplomatic Comedy

A Diplomatic Coup

A Japanese-English Journal

A National Characteristic

A Shanghai Canard

A Strange Theory

A Wonderful Article

American Ministers in Japan

An Anglo-Japanese-Chinese Alliance

An Illustration of our Intercourse with the Japan

An Indiscreet Diplomat

An Old Mistake

An Old Scandal Revived

Asiatic Society of Japan

Athletic Sports (Tokyo University)

China and Japan in Korea

China as a "vis-a-vis"

China, Japan, and France

China’s Misrepresentations

Code or no Code

Commissioner Wuh’s reported Proceedings in Korea

Consul-General De Bavier’s Reports

Cooperation that Cripples

Count Ito’s Mission

Cricket (Yokohama v. Tokyo)

Currency Fluctuations and their Cause

Diplomatic Dilemmas

Dynamite in America

Dynamite in Japan

Education and the Japanese Mind

Educational Difficulties in Japan

Egyptian News

Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-four

England in the Soudan

Esoteric Buddhism

France and China

General Order No.45

Guide, Philosopher, and Friend

H.I.R.M.S. "Vladimir Monomak" and H.B.M.S. "Agamemnon."

Imperfect Education

Japan and China

Japan in Berlin

Japanese Arts and Manufactures

Japanese Laws and Foreign Licence

Japanese National Resources

Japanese Neutrality

Japanese Pronunciation

Japanese Women

Japan’s Best Friend

Japan’s Favourites among Foreigners

Korean Punishments

Lukewarm Reformers

Military Preparations

Mr. "Vernier" and Mr. Holtham

Mr. Gladstone’s Resignation

Mr. Iwasaki Yataro

Mr. Wilkin’s Speech at the Chamber of Commerce Meeting

Mr. R. Henry Brunton on Japanese Sanitation

Nakasendo Railway Bonds

National Roads

Nippon Race Club (Spring Meeting)

Obdurates and Egoists

Official Account of the Korean Disturbance

Official Aid to Individual Traders

Official Trading

Pagan Patriotism

Patents

Perplexities of International Law

Political Parties in Japan

Political Possibilities

Prince Bismarck and the Cameroons

Propagandists of Officialdom

Public Opinion

Reason and Custom

Rejected Addresses

Return to Specie Payments

Rice as Contraband

Russia and England in Central Asia

Sanitary Bureau Report

Sanitary Bureau Report

Silk and Tea Prospects in 1885

Sir Harry Parkes

Sir Robert Hart’s Rumoured Appointment

The "Bosphore Egyptien" in its bearing on Japan

The "Jiyu Shimbun’s" Views

The "Meiji Nippo" on England’s Policy

The Ancient Stone Implements of Japan

The Chinese Chain of Responsibility

The Chinese Inspector-General of Customs

The Church in Japan during the XVIth Century

The Circulation of Banknotes

The Cultivation and Manufacture of Cotton in China

The Depreciation of "Kinsatsu"

The Designs of the Korean Seclusionists

The Difficulties of the Japanese Merchant

The Distress in Japan

The Distress in Japan and its Causes

The Fall of Khartoum

The Fight in Soul

The Franco-Chinese Negotiations

The Gas Committee

The Great Economical Problem

The Japanese Education Society

The Japanese-Chinese Convention

The Korean Arrangement

The Korean Imbroglio of 1884, and the Consequent Negotiations with China

The Land Tax

The Late Sir Harry Parkes

The Leading Facts of the Korean Affair as we now know them

The Mamushi

The New President of the United States

The Occupation of Port Hamilton

The Occupation of Port Hamilton from a Moral Point of View

The Organization of the Protoplasm

The Origin of Religion

The Process of Exhaustion

The Proposed French Monopoly of Railways in China

The Prospects of Buddhism

The Question between China and Japan

The Railways of Japan

The Reported Sale of Specie Bonds in London

The Rival Companies

The Romaji-Kai and the Kana-no-Kai

The Silk Trade of Japan

The Situation at Tientsin

The Situation in Formosa

The Situation in France

The Small-pox Epidemic

The Spirit of the Japanese

The Tientsin Treaty of April 19th, 1885

The Tokyo Athletic Sports

The Tokyo Water Supply

The Treaty between France and China

The True Story of the Protocol of April 4th

The Viceroy of Chihli and Sir Robert Hart

The Yokohama Chamber of Commerce on Treaty Revision

Third Bienneial Native Christian Conference

Tokyo’s Buildings

Torpedoes at Vladivostock

Trade with Korea

Unjust Comparisons

What Japan asks of China

Wholesale Misrepresentations

Yokohama Amateur Rowing Club

Yokohama Amateur Rowing Club Regatta

Yokohama Cricket and Athletic Club

Yokohama Fire Brigade

Yokohama Flower Show

Yokohama General Cemetery

Yokohama General Chamber of Commerce

Yokohama General Hospital

Yokohama Public Hall Association

Yokoyama Promenade Concerts

Biography

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