A Handbook of Modern Japan

A HANDBOOK OF MODERN JAPAN
Uniform with this Work
JAPAN AS IT WAS AND IS: A Handbook of Old Japan. By Richard Hildreth. In two volumes. A reprint edited and revised, with notes and additions, by Ernest W. Clement and an Introduction by William Elliot Griffis. With maps and 100 illustrations. 12mo, in slip Case. $3.00 net .
A. C. McClurg & Co. Chicago
THE LATE EMPEROR MEIJI TENNO
New Revised Edition
WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS NINTH EDITION THOROUGHLY REVISED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO DATE WITH ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS ON THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR AND GREATER JAPAN
CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1913
Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1903; 1905; 1913
Copyrighted in Great Britain UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
To the Memory of my Father and my Mother
THIS book, as its title indicates, is intended to portray Japan as it is rather than as it was. It is not by any means the purpose, however, to ignore the past, upon which the present is built, because such a course would be both foolish and futile. Moreover, while there are probably no portions of Japan, and very few of her people, entirely unaffected by the new civilization, yet there are still some sections which are comparatively unchanged by the new ideas and ideals. And, although those who have been least affected by the changes are much more numerous than those who have been most influenced, yet the latter are much more active and powerful than the former.