Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1879

No. 312.
Mr. Bingham to Mr. Evarts.

United States Legation,
Tokei, Japan , October 6, 1879. (Received November 4.)

No. 978.]

Sir: Referring to my No. 967, in which I enclosed the report of the British legation in Japan upon the general foreign trade of this country, I now have the honor to inclose a table of the yearly imports and exports of this empire from the first to the eleventh year of Meiji (1868–’78), as published in the Nichi Nichi Shimbun and translated in the Japan Daily Herald of the 6th instant, which shows the balance of trade against Japan during the eleven years to have been in round numbers yen 67,000,000, or more than five times the present foreign debt of Japan and its interest.

I have, &c.,

JNO. A. BINGHAM.

[Inclosure in Mr. Bingham’s No. 978.—Extract from the Japan Daily Herald, October 6, 1879.]

The following is a table of the yearly difference between exports and imports from the 1st to the 11th year of Meiji (1868–78).

Year.	Exports.	Imports.
	Yen.	Yen.
1st	15,553,472 87	10,693,071 84
2d	12,908,978 02	20,783,633 17
3d	14,543,012 59	33,741,637 56
4th	17,968,608 71	21,916,727 74
5th	17,026,647 21	26,174,814 94
6th	21,142,014 77	27,617,264 05
7th	18,780,078 79	22,924,587 08
8th	18,077,660 58	25,094,742 08
9th	27,503,457 73	25,121,897 88
10th	26,908,607 92	31,933,352,63
11th	24,614,760 24	29,815,353 49