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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Japan |
 | | The tribunals number 358; courts of cassation, 1; courts of appeal, 7 (Tokio, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Miyaga, and Hakodate); lower courts (district courts), 49 (at least one to a department); courts of justices of the peace (sub-district courts), 301. |
 | | These six cities are Tokio, 1,811,655 inhabitants, Osaka, 995,945, Kyoto, 380,568, Yokohama, 326,065, Nagoya, 288,369, and Kobe, 285,002. |
 | | The Constitution published February, 1889, established the irremovability of the magistrates, who can only be suspended by special law. |
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