The Japanese Government commissioned the Daihoku Telegraph Company in Denmark to lay submarine telegraph cables. The company completed the submarine telegraph connection between Nagasaki and Shanghai in June of the fourth year of the Meiji Period (1871) and between Nagasaki and Vladivostok in October of the same year, thus opening telegraph communication between Japan and foreign countries. At last, Japan could get information from abroad quickly, and this was good news for the trading industry.

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