Period of transition, beginning of, [184]
Perry, Commodore, "knocking at Japan's door,", [28];
opens door to progress, [184]
Physicians, women as, [96]
Picture brides, no longer allowed to come to America, [244]
Pipes, diminutive, [130]
Placidity in business and home life, [228]
Poems, annually submitted to the Imperial Bureau, [165]
Politeness, Japanese ideas of, [260]
Politics, lack of interest in, [103]
Population, excess in, [231], [233];
must be balanced by industrial expansion, [234]