PART IV

APPENDIX. 1893-

XVI. THE CONSTITUTION IN THEORY AND IN PRACTICE. 1893-1906 199 XVII. PARTIES AND POLITICS. 1893-1906 213 XVIII. ECONOMIC PROGRESS. 1893-1906 242 XIX. THE CHINO-JAPANESE WAR. 1894-1895 252 XX. JAPAN AND RUSSIA IN KOREA AND MANCHURIA. 1893-1904 275 XXI. THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH. 1904-. 303

BIBLIOGRAPHY 331

INDEX 337

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

GENERALS OF THE LATE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR (Photogravure) _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE AINOS WORSHIPING 28 ABDUCTION OF GOSHIRAKAWA (_in color_) 60 THE INVASION BY THE MONGOL TARTARS 76 THE PROCESSION OF FEUDAL LORDS 124 A PICNIC ON THE ASUKA HILL IN THE FLOWERY SEASON 156

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PAGE JAPAN BEFORE THE FIFTH CENTURY 10 JAPAN 61 NORTHERN JAPAN 85 SOUTHERN JAPAN 99 KOREA 117 CENTRAL JAPAN 124 JAPANESE PORTS OPENED TO FOREIGN TRADE. 1858 159 DOWNFALL OF THE EDO GOVERNMENT. 1867-1868 168 THE INSURRECTION IN THE ISLAND OF KIUSHŪ. 1877 181 ISLAND POSSESSIONS OF JAPAN 193 FIRST ENGAGEMENTS OF CHINO-JAPANESE WAR. 1894 261 CAMPAIGNS IN KOREA AND MANCHURIA 268 WEI-HAI-WEI, FORMOSA, AND PESCADORES 270 FOREIGN SPHERES OF INFLUENCE IN CHINA AND MANCHURIA 278 JAPANESE ADVANCE TO LIAO-YANG 309 BATTLE OF THE SEA OF JAPAN, RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR 315