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It had a mercantile-marineoffice and an inn for foreign guests. It was to establish that independence that she fought with China,in 1894, and the same motive led her after the war to annex theManchurian littoral adjacent to Korea's northern frontier. Her military budget amounts to only seven millionssterling--$35,000,000--a wonderfully small sum considering theresults obtained. But the Jinno Shotoki did not fall on fruitfulsoil.

The Ikko-shu,however, had its own internal dissensions. Theprinciple of popular representation is strictly adhered to, everyprefecture, every county, every town, and ev It would seem that thetardiness of the latter was not due wholly to its larger dimensions,but must be attributed in part to its composition. Evidently, however, all this was only partial.