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Show JAPANESE TIME. v . London Express. . . The Japanese divide the twenty-four hours Into twelve periods, of which six belong to the night and six. to. the day, their day beginning at sunrise and ending end-ing at sunset. Whether the day or night be long or short, there are always - . six periods in each. To attain this, the characters or numerals on the scale are adjustable. -Two of them are set, one to agree with the sunrise, the other with sunset, and the four characters between . them divide the ssace into equal portions. por-tions. Thus, when the period of daylight day-light is longer than the night, the day hours will be proportionately longer than those at nhrht. Another peculiarity peculiar-ity In their scale is that they use only six characters, thone from four to nine, and these read backward, - ' |