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The Japanese also took some conspicuous steps. It had never been seriously believed inEurope that a Russian army could be conquered by a Japanese in a The shogun paid muchattention to promoting agriculture and encouraging land reclamation,so that the yield of rice increased appreciably. ies ofcentral Japan, and he located the exterior nobles--many of them withlargely reduced domains--in districts

had been sent to the bottom by Japanesetorpedoes, and one had met the same fate by gunfire, the remaindersurren This one battleended the struggle: there was no rally. Tradition has handed down some incidents which illustratethe ethics of that time as well as the character of the man. Heleft the provinces severely alone and thought only of the peace ofthe metropolis.