Japan at First Hand

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Excerpt from Japan at First Hand: Her Islands, Their People, the Picturesque, the Real, With Latest Facts and Figures on Their War-Time Trade Expansion and Commercial Outreach Alluded to. In the course of the ensuing chapters will be found some appreciations of these gentry, who are responsible for so much mischief-making between the people of the land where they make their living and the peoples they spring from. They are of two kinds - agents of western mercantile firms who find their business slipping out of their unprogressive hands as they lounge and swap stories at the club or else writers for foreign language publications - many of them mere journalistic beach-combers. How it comes about that these men of fair intelligence if no particular brain-power, should grow, the longer they live in the Far East, to be more and 'more inimical to their surroundings is an interesting study in its place. Their comment anyway becomes transparent. For one thing, and this has its truly comic side unlike other of their outgivings, they deeply resent any warm expressions regarding cherry-blossoms or wistaria, the gardens, the temples, or other externals of Japan. I have not raved over these admirable things, but a later, self elected antagonist, by name Patrick Gallagher, writing things about somebody else, turned to me once, fairly choking with rage that threatened to explode his corporal being, and just could burble: 'oh, the cherry-blossoms and wistaria! Could anything be more crushing? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.