Excerpt from War and Armament Expenditures of Japan The present volume is intended to set forth the results of a statistical investigation Of the economic effects of the wars in which Japan has taken part since the beginning of the Meiji Era particularly from the standpoint Of expenditures for war and armament. This volume forms part Of the whole historical investigation into the relations Of war and armament to the national economy since the first year of the Meiji Era, as embraced in the other volumes dealing with Taxes for War and Armament, Loans for War and Armament, the System of Conscription, the Sino - Japanese War Expenditures, the russo-japanese War Expenditures, and the Development Of Military Industries. It may be said that this volume stands as an introduction to all the above-mentioned works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.