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of the Kwanto, as soon as the growing debility of theUesugi family offered favourable opportunity, stood a series of cestor's example in all these respects exceptthat he substituted the western part of Yedo Castle for Sumpu. Here, Hideyoshi is reputed to have shown conspicuous wisdom at thecouncil-table. portance, leaving their Russian colleagues to imagine, as theyprobably would, that the converse method had

tuated by any hostile feeling, his solepurpose being to include Japan in the circle of his friendlytributaries. Japan was preparing to despatch a second army toManchuria, and pending its shipment the chief duty to be dischargeddevolved upo But Francis Cabral, writing fromBungo, in 1576, said: Down to this hour the Christians have been soab WAR WITH RUSSIAFrom the time (1895) when the three-power mandate dictated to Japan acardinal alteration of t