A Handbook of Modern Japan

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Aims and ambitions of Japan.—Grand park.—Commercial centre.—Advantageous position.—Leader in civilization.—Example of civilized nation.—Transmitter of Western...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Japanese syllabary; _i-ro-ha_ arrangement; arrangement of fifty-sounds; modern inventions.—Chinese ideographs; _Kata-kana_; _Hira-gana_; _Kana-majiri_ and _Ka...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Not Western “new woman,” but abstract, legal new woman in Japan.—Woman in old _régime_; wife in old _régime_; lack of “home”; woman anciently honored.—Legal s...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Justice in Old Japan; new codes; list of same; crimes and punishments; convicts; police; arrest; trials; courts; judiciary; prisons; legalized prostitution; c...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Birth and birthdays; marriage; death and funeral; mourning.—Holidays (national, local, class, and religions); the “five festivals”; New Year’s holidays; the o...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Travelling in Old Japan; vehicles of Old and New Japan; _jinrikisha_; railway travel; telegraph and telephone; street-car, bicycle, and automobile; steamships...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Ainu; ethnology; two types; comparative stature and weight; intellectual and moral qualities.—Classes in society of old and new _régimes_; social principle.—F...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: The “Charter Oath” of Japan; popular agitation; promise of a national assembly; a red-letter year; the “Magna Charta” of Japan; Imperial prerogatives; persona...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Japan’s debt to art.—Wide diffusion of æsthetic ideals.—Chinese origin of Japanese art.—Painting the key-note.—Considered a form of poetry.—Characteristics.—C...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Mediæval Christianity; Modern Christianity; missionaries; Japanese Christians; Christian literature; kinds and methods of work; churches and chapels; Sunday-s...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Situation of country; relation to the United States; lines of communication; “Key of Asia.”—Area of empire.—Divisions: highways, provinces, prefectures, princ...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Birth of New Japan.—Nineteenth Century Japan; calendars; six periods: (I) Period of Seclusion, chronology and description; (II) Period of Treaty-making, chron...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: First impressions: minuteness; politeness and courtesy; etiquette; simplicity; vivacity; equanimity; union of Stoicism and Epicureanism; generosity; unpractic...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Agriculture; petty farming; small capital and income; character of farmer; decrease of farmers; principal products; rice; tea; tobacco; silk; cotton; camphor;...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Standards of world-power; conscription; draft and exemption; army; arms and ammunition; officers of the army; navy; types of Japanese war-vessels; coal supply...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Religion in Japan; Shintō; a “natural religion”; simple services; religious patriotism; perfunctory worship; Shintō doomed “as a religion”; secularization of...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Japan in 1801 and 1901; eras; Emperor and Court; Shōgun.—Sealed and wide-open Japan.—Travel and barriers.—Social changes.—_Samurai._—Ideals of 1801 and 1901.—...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Local government under feudalism; periods of modern local self-government; gradual development therein; prefectural assemblies; candidates and electors; stand...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Old-style education; study of Dutch; modern education; branches of curricula; three kinds of schools; school age; the Imperial Rescript; kindergartens; elemen...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Outline of mythology and history; sources of material; earlier periods; Japanese and Græco-Roman mythology; prehistoric period; continental influences; capita...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Confucianism; “Five Relations”; Bushidō; influences of Confucianism and Bushidō.—Buddhism; general view; chief sects; Tendai sect; Shingon sect; Zen sect; Jōd...