Excerpt from Local Finance in Japan in Relation to Imperial Finance Being far away from my fatherland, I found it naturally very hard to get sufficient information and to collect materials, which are specially scarce and incomplete, for local finance. It seems to me, however, that the study of local finance is of prime importance, and it is very desirable to put it on a sound basis, for the tendency1 of all modern countries is to increase the expenditure of local governments. This may, unless carefully administered, lead to financial trouble. This study in Japan has not received much attention from scholars or men of affairs until recently. This paper may be the first of the sort. 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.