JAMESON, WILLIAM. 



JAPAN. 



251 



JAMESON, Commodore WILLIAM, II. S. N. XIII. 



Obituary of, 582. 



JAMIESON, WILLIAM, M. D., English botanist 

 and scientist. XIII. Obituary of, 598. 



JAMISON, DAVID F. I. Opening address to 

 Secession Convention, South Carolina, 648. 



JANES, EDWIN L. XV. Decease of, 571. 



JANET-LANGE, ANGE-LOUIS. XII. Obituary, 

 649. 



JANIN, JULES G. XIY. Birth, 425; critic 

 and man of letters, 425 ; death, 426 ; writings, 

 426. 



JANNEY, JOHN. I. President of the Vir- 

 ginia State Convention, 731. 



JAPAN. I. Extent of the empire, 392 ; pop- 

 ulation, 393 ; civilization, 393 ; skill in manu- 

 factures, 393 ; Government, 393 ; foreign in- 

 tercourse, 393. 



III. Government, 552 ; revenue, 552 ; ports, 

 552 ; office of Tycoon, 553 ; trade, 553 ; rela- 

 tions of the Government to civilized nations, 

 553; Great Britain, 554; France, 554; United 

 States, 555 ; British naval engagement, 555. 



IV. Its Government, 443; treaties, 444; 

 commerce, 444 ; internal struggle, 444 ; Hako- 

 dadi, 444 ; embassy to France, 444 ; treaty, 444 ; 

 new act of hostility, 445 ; naval expedition of 

 combined fleets, 445; attack on the forts at 

 Hakusima, 445 ; treaty, 446 ; its effect, 446. 



V. Government, 454; estimated population, 

 454; composition and numbers of the army, 

 454; progress of European settlements, 454; 

 railroad at Nagasaki, 454; mulberry-trees plant- 

 ed, 454; sugar-manufacture at the Loochoos, 

 454 ; great changes at Yokohama, 454 ; imports 

 and exports, 454 ; movement of shipping, 454 ; 

 change in relations with foreign powers, 454 ; 

 Inland Sea expedition, 454 ; account of its 

 progress and result, 454-456 ; treaties ratified, 

 456 ; opening of the ports of Osaka and Hiogo, 

 456 ; description of Osaka, 456 ; true authority 

 of the Tycoon, 456 ; embassies to France and 

 England, 456. 



VI. Death of the Tycoon, 414 ; ratification, 

 414 ; successor, 414 ; applies to France for mili- 

 tary instruction, 414 ; civil war, 415 ; deficient 

 rice-crop, 415 ; fire at Yokohama, 415 ; con- 

 vention with the United States, Great Britain, 

 France, and Holland, 416. 



VII. Area and population, 415 ; form of the 

 Government, 415; installation of the new 

 Tycoon, Stotbashi, 416 ; death of the Mikado 

 Kingo-koo Thei, 416 ; conference of the Tycoon 



with foreign ministers, 416; text of the con- 

 vention, 416, 417; proclamation for the open- 

 ing of ports, 417; opposition of the Daimios, 

 and resignation of the Tycoon, 417 ; opening 

 of the ports, 417; murder of British seamen, 

 417 ; organization of troops by a French com- 

 mission, 418 ; treaties with foreign countries, 

 418; embassies to United States and France, 

 418; Eoman Catholic missionaries, 417; estab- 

 lishment of a newspaper at Yeddo, 418 ; pur- 

 chase of American books, 418 ; naval display 

 at the conference concerning the opening of 

 ports, 527. 



VIII. Area, 390; population, 390; com- 

 merce, 390 ; importation of arms, 390 ; foreign 

 tonnage, 390 ; products of Japan, 390 ; imports 

 and exports, 390 ; resignation of the Tycoon, 

 390; opening of the ports, 391 ; conspiracy of 

 Daimios, 391 ; conflicts, 391 ; further troubles, 

 392; interference of foreign ministers, 392; 

 interview with the Mikado, 392 ; his ultimatum 

 to the Tycoon, 393 ; his decree, 393 ; his friend- 

 ly attitude, 393 ; settlement of the difficulties, 

 394; finances, 394; decree against the Chris- 

 tians, 395 ; effort to change the state religion, 

 396. 



IX. Area and population, 365 ; conflict be- 

 tween the Mikado and Tycoon, 365 ; foreign 

 powers represented in Japan, 365 ; commerce 

 and shipping, 365 ; provisional government 

 formed on the island of Yesso by supporters 

 of the Tycoon, 365 ; Parliament assembled at 

 Yeddo by order of the Mikado, 365 ; message 

 of the Emperor, 365 ; scheme for the rules and 

 regulations of the Parliament, 365 ; the capi- 

 tal of Yesso attacked by the Mikado's forces, 

 366 ; questions from the Foreign Office dis- 

 cussed in the Parliament at Yeddo, 367 ; oppo- 

 sition in Parliament to the Christian religion, 

 368; termination of the civil war, 368; the 

 laws of Gongensama, 368 ; revenue, 368 ; crim- 

 inal code, 368 ; maintenance of the army, 369 ; 

 Japanese progress, 369; new era in foreign 

 political intercourse, 369 ; imports and exports, 

 339; Austrian embassy to Japan, 369; inci- 

 dents of the mission, 369. 



X. Kelations with United States, 231 ; Gov- 

 ernment, 416 ; United States minister at, 416 ; 

 area and population, 416 ; revenue, 416 ; army, 

 416; commerce and shipping, 416 ; articles of 

 export and import, 416 ; railroad loan, 416 ; 

 railroads and telegraphs, 417; budget, 417; 

 rice-crops and riots, 417 ; relations of Mikado 



