Japan

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Japan: Country, Court, and People The writer of this book has taken advantage Of the Oppor tunities afforded him, while resident in Japan as missionarv and engaged in educational work, to gather material for a comprehensive view Of the country, court, and people. The enforced leisure Of a couple Of years has enabled him to put it in shape and Offer it as a contribution to a better understand ing Of that far Eastern nation. The expedition Of Commo dore Perry, which in 1854 Opened the country to foreign intercourse, awakened interest in the character, conditions, and possible future Of the people. This interest has been in tensified by the war with China and the entrance Of Japan, under the Operation of new treaties, into the community Of civilized nations. It is impossible as yet to forecast the far reaching results Of these events. They have already pro foundly affected the life Of the nation, and, in the nature of the case, must in¿uence its political and commercial and even its religious relations with the Western world. 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.