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| | | Operatives. | Quantity | |
| | Spindles.+-------+-------+ produced. | Remarks. |
| | | Male. |Female.| | |
+------+----------+-------+-------+-------------+-------------------------+
| | | | | lb. | This is a wholly new |
| 1897 | 768,328 | 9,933 |35,059 | 216,913,196 | had industry in Japan. |
| 1901 |1,181,762 |13,481 |49,540 | 274,861,380 | It no existence before |
| 1906 |1,425,406 |13,032 |59,281 | 383,359,113 | the Meiji era. |
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