Telegraph lines went up at a phenomenal speed and by the twelfth year of the Meiji Period, telegraph offices were set up in major cities throughout Japan. Fukazawa Yukichi at that time directed his attention to dramatic changes of the concept of time and space, human relations in daily life, economics, politics and war caused by the development of steam ships, the telegraph, printing and postal communications. His vision of changing the whole country into a large city and evening out dialects through one thousand kilometers of linked neighbors has surely become a reality.

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