[113] The first alliance of a white nation and a yellow nation.

[114] Several paragraphs are here republished, by permission, from “The Standard,” Chicago.

[115] See his voluminous work in Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xx., Supplement.

[116] These new codes are available in English, as follows: The Civil Code, by Gubbins; the Civil Code and the Commercial Code, by Lönholm and Terry; the Commercial Code, the Criminal Code, and the Code of Civil Procedure, in official translations.

[117] See “Japan in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.”

[118] But missionaries, as individuals, are able to unite in organizing a Japanese corporation.

[119] Portions of this chapter are reprinted by permission from the “American Journal of Sociology,” March, 1903.

[120] Chap. iv. on “People, Houses, Food, Dress.”

[121] The Japanese mother-in-law is an awful tyrant; but it is always the wife’s mother-in-law.

[122] Since 1882 they have been upon the same basis.