The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . 5,7 It),819 yen more. Of the imports,nearly one-half came from Great Britain,and of the exports, we and our coloniestook about one-third.* These iigures are exceeding dryin themselves, but they are eloquent intheir corollaries. Twenty-five years agoJapan was a closed-up empire. She refusedto have anything to do with the world andits waysâshe was a law unto year a single ship came from Hol-land, and was permittedâwith indignityunbearablet to any but
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . 5,7 It),819 yen more. Of the imports,nearly one-half came from Great Britain,and of the exports, we and our coloniestook about one-third.* These iigures are exceeding dryin themselves, but they are eloquent intheir corollaries. Twenty-five years agoJapan was a closed-up empire. She refusedto have anything to do with the world andits waysâshe was a law unto year a single ship came from Hol-land, and was permittedâwith indignityunbearablet to any but Malavan-II-ili>K«> oftrading. But fii-st they had to kick the Bible and spit on the CroM; and, what to such people wan, no %^ ROrE>MAKrNO IS JAPAN. 310 THE COUXTRIES OF THK WORLD. Other surplus riches of the country. With the rest of the Western world Dai Xipondeclined all intercourse. But when this intercourse was forced upon her by anadmiral, whose eloquence was aided by an ironclad, she suddenly woke out of thesleep of ages, and the only fear for Japan nowadays is that she will rush too fastalono- the path which she has chosen. Jajianese youth are in every Europeanunivereity, though already there are good colleges in Japan itself. Japanese doctorsgraduate, Japanese barristers are called in the Inns of Court, and in every depart-ment of intellectual life the Niponese promise to hold their own with the Westerns, towhom they were utter strangei-s only a few years ago. Even Japan is not the Japan itonce was. Its seaports are Europeanised, and its shops filled with lacquer and otlior work,made solely for the barbarian markets. It is now, indeed, difficult to get anythingreal, for so cleverly have old chi
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