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Page iii
... POLITICS IN THE PAST AND PRESENT . XIII . OUTLINE OF STRATEGICAL GEOGRAPHY XIV . THE QUESTION OF COLONIZATION . XV . JAPAN AS AN ALLY . • 191 205 217 238 XVI . OUR PROSPECTS UNDER THE REVISED TREATIES . 250 ILLUSTRATIONS THE OLD AND THE ...
... POLITICS IN THE PAST AND PRESENT . XIII . OUTLINE OF STRATEGICAL GEOGRAPHY XIV . THE QUESTION OF COLONIZATION . XV . JAPAN AS AN ALLY . • 191 205 217 238 XVI . OUR PROSPECTS UNDER THE REVISED TREATIES . 250 ILLUSTRATIONS THE OLD AND THE ...
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... politics , electricity , and merchant firms . The contrast is too striking to be either artistic or satisfactory . On the subject of all matters Japanese the local foreigners resident in Japan are so clearly divided into two camps that ...
... politics , electricity , and merchant firms . The contrast is too striking to be either artistic or satisfactory . On the subject of all matters Japanese the local foreigners resident in Japan are so clearly divided into two camps that ...
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... Politics , Morals , and the Drama . I have to thank the Editor of the Engineer for allowing me to use certain photographs - notably those representing the Yokosuka Dock - yard , a group of students , and the Educational Buildings of the ...
... Politics , Morals , and the Drama . I have to thank the Editor of the Engineer for allowing me to use certain photographs - notably those representing the Yokosuka Dock - yard , a group of students , and the Educational Buildings of the ...
Page xiv
... politicians of Japan , generally speaking , and particularly those who are at the head of affairs , keep their hands cleaner than do their confrères in many of the coun- tries which boast of a higher civilization . I believe that , so ...
... politicians of Japan , generally speaking , and particularly those who are at the head of affairs , keep their hands cleaner than do their confrères in many of the coun- tries which boast of a higher civilization . I believe that , so ...
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... a smaller scale there than in Europe . At the present day , however , we are bound to admit that their army , navy , mercantile marine , rail- way systems , public buildings , educational , political , II POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS OF JAPAN.
... a smaller scale there than in Europe . At the present day , however , we are bound to admit that their army , navy , mercantile marine , rail- way systems , public buildings , educational , political , II POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS OF JAPAN.
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Page 64 - Japan, published in 1872, he directed that "henceforth Education shall be so diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member.
Page xi - Ransome, Stafford. Japan in transition: a comparative study of the progress, policy and methods of the Japanese since their war with China, 277 pp., 1899.
Page 72 - Elementary schools are designed to give children the rudiments of moral education specially adapted to make of them good members of the community, together with such general knowledge and skill as are necessary for the practical duties of life, due attention being paid to their bodily development.
Page 75 - As regards the length of the courses of study, it should be mentioned here that the course of medicine extends over four years, while in the College of Law, no definite term of study is fixed, but three examination periods are specially prescribed for each course.
Page 74 - Engineering includes the nine courses of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Technology of Arms, Electrical Engineering, Architecture, Applied Chemistry, Technology of Explosives, and Mining and Metallurgy, with 29 professorial chairs.