A Handbook Of Modern Japan

About this eBook

Author

Clement, Ernest W. (Ernest Wilson), 1860-1941

Title

A Handbook of Modern Japan

Credits

MFR, Heather McNamara and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Japan

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 65253

Release Date

May 4, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A HANDBOOK OF MODERN JAPAN — BY ERNEST W. CLEMENT
2. 2.INTRODUCTION
3. 3.NOTE TO NEW REVISED EDITION
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.JAPANESE PRONUNCIATION
7. 7.CHAPTER I PHYSIOGRAPHY — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
8. 8.CHAPTER II INDUSTRIAL JAPAN — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
9. 9.CHAPTER III TRAVEL, TRANSPORTATION, COMMERCE — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV PEOPLE, HOUSES, FOOD, DRESS — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
11. 11.CHAPTER V MANNERS AND CUSTOMS — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI JAPANESE TRAITS — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII HISTORY (OLD JAPAN) — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII HISTORY (NEW JAPAN) — I. Period of Seclusion (1801-1853). CHRONOLOGY. — II. Period of Treaty-Making (1854-1858). CHRONOLOGY. — III. Period of Civil Commotions (1858-1868). CHRONOLOGY. — IV. Period of Reconstruction (1868-1878). CHRONOLOGY. — V. Period of Internal Development (1879-1889). CHRONOLOGY. — VI. Period of Constitutional Government (1889-1900). CHRONOLOGY. — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX CONSTITUTIONAL IMPERIALISM — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
16. 16.CHAPTER X LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI JAPAN AS A WORLD POWER — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII LEGAL JAPAN — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII THE NEW WOMAN IN JAPAN 119 — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV EDUCATION — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI ÆSTHETIC JAPAN — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII 153 DISESTABLISHMENT OF SHINTŌ — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII CONFUCIANISM, BUSHIDŌ, BUDDHISM — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX JAPANESE CHRISTENDOM — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX TWENTIETH CENTURY JAPAN
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI THE MISSION OF JAPAN — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
28. 28.THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR — CHRONOLOGY OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR — Summary — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
29. 29.GREATER JAPAN — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
30. 30.APPENDIX
31. 31.APPENDIX — Provinces and Prefectures — Tables of Japanese Money, Weight, and Measure 198 — Arable Land in Japan 199 — Fruit-Growing in Japan 200 — Factories in Japan 201 — Clearing-Houses of Japan — Ship-Building in Japan 203 — The Ōsaka Exhibition 204 — Cost of Living in Japan — Railways in Japan — Postal Savings in Japan 206 — The Oil Industry in Japan 207 — NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. — DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOREIGN TRADE OF JAPAN — The Wealth of Japan — Japanese Year Periods — LIST OF JAPANESE YEAR PERIODS. 210 — Ministerial Changes in Japan — Japan’s House of Peers — The Political Parties of Japan 216 — Army Statistics of Japan 218 — Japanese Naval Increment 220 — Japan’s Mercantile Marine 223 — Schools in Japan 226 — Statistics of Christianity in Japan 229 — Japan’s National Song 231 — Floral Japan — Japan and Siam 232 — Formosa under Japan — The Americo-Japanese Entente
32. 32.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:

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