Where Half The World Is Waking Up / The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

by Clarence Hamilton Poe

	CHAPTER	PAGE
I.	[Japan: The Land ofUpside Down]	3
	A Land of Contradictions
	Music as an Example
	Marriage and the Home Life
	Patriarchal Ideas Still Dominant.

II.	[Snapshots ofJapanese Life and Philosophy]	9
	What a Japanese City Is Like
	Strange Clothing of the Japanese
	Who Ever Saw So Many Babies?
	Alphonse and Gaston Outdone
	The Grace of the Little Women
	How the Old Japan and the Old South WereAlike
	A "Moral Distinction" Between Producers andNon-Producers.

III.	[Japanese Farming and Farmer Folk]	17
	Japanese Farm Children Getting More Schooling than American Farm Children
	No Illiteracy in the New Japan
	Where Five Acres Is a Large Farm
	How Iowa Might Feed the Whole United States
	Farming Without Horses or Oxen
	What the Japanese Farmers Raise
	The Crime of Soil-waste
	All Work Done by Hand
	Cooperative Credit Societies a Success
	Farm Houses Grouped in Villages
	"A Seller of the Ancestral Land"
	The Japanese Love of the Beautiful a Suggestion for America.

IV.	["Welfare Work" in Japanese Factories]	29
	Manufacturing Bound to Increase
	Tariff Legislation Unfair to Agriculture
	A Visit to a Progressive Japanese Factory
	How the Factory Operatives Are Looked After
	Stricter Factory Legislation Coming.

V.	[ Does Japanese Competition Menace the White Man's Trade]	34
	A Study of Japanese Industrial Conditions
	Japanese Labor Cheap but Inefficient
	Actual Cost of Output Little Cheaper than in America
	Laborers in a State {xii} of Deplorable Inexperience
	Illustrations of Japanese Inefficiency
	Some Current Misconceptions Corrected
	Labor Wage Has Increased 40 Per Cent, in Eight Years
	The Burden of Taxation
	High Tariff Will Decrease Japan's Export Trade
	Subsidy Policy Destroying Individual Initiative
	Japanese Competition Not a Serious Menace to the White Man.

VI.	[ Buddhism, Shintoism, and Christianity in Japan]	48
	The Artistic Touch of the Japanese
	Religion Without Morals
	Buddhism in Fact vs. Buddhism Idealized by Arnold
	Official Notices Prohibiting Christianity
	Christianity "Puts Too High an Estimate on Woman"
	The Worth of the Individual Not Recognized
	The Elemental Significance of Japan's Awakening
	A New Type of Civilization.

VII.	[Korea: "The Land of the Morning Calm" ]	60
	I Have Become a Contemporary of David
	The Fascination of a Primitive City
	Some Odd Korean Customs
	A True Romance and an Odd One
	Many Faces Marked by Smallpox
	A Typical Monarchy of Ancient Asia-
	The Honorable Mr. Yang-ban
	Six Men to Carry Fifty Dollars' Worth of Money
	Japanese Annexation
	Splendid Work of Foreign Missionaries.

VIII.	[ Manchuria: Fair and Fertile]	70
	Some First-hand Stories of the Russo-Japanese War
	A Bit of History with a Lesson
	The Site of the World's Next Great War
	Manchuria: Fair and Fertile
	Fat Harvests of Food, Feed, and Fuel
	A Land Where Everybody "Knows Beans"
	Golden Opportunities for Stock-raising
	Better Plows and Level Culture
	Graves as Thick as Corn Shocks

IX.	[Where Japan Is Absorbing an Empire]	78
	Manchuria the One Great Oriental Empire Not Yet Developed
	Its Strategic Importance
	Why the "Open Door" Concerns Us All
	Japan's Shrewd Policies {xiii}
	Contempt of Chinese Authority
	Japan at Home vs. Japan in Manchuria
	How the Open Door Policy Was Violated
	Will Manchuria Go the Way of Korea?
	A Bit of Chinese Wit and Wisdom
	Truth Is in the Interest of Peace.

X.	[Light from China on Problems at Home]	93
	A Chinese Martyr-Hero
	The Most Tremendous Moral Achievement of Recent Times
	A Lesson for America
	Putting Officials on Salaries
	Money Changers and Title Changers
	Making Education Practical
	The Parcels Post and Tariff Reform.