The Mikado's Empire/Catatan dan Apendiks/Keuangan Nasional

THE NATIONAL FINANCES.

Of the national debt, $14,480,912 is foreign, and $127,808,668 is domestic. The paper money now in circulation amounts to $94,803,819. The foreign debt and paper money are being slowly redeemed. Government loans for industrial and charitable purposes amounted to $12,594,889. The appropriation to the United States Centennial Exposition is $251,385. See report printed in full, in The Japan Mail, January 27th, 1876. I have extracted the condensed table given above from The Japan Herald of January 10th, 1876.