Mediaeval and modern history . litical institutions ofthe West. She has adopted almost entirethe material side of the civilization of theWestern nations and has eagerly absorbedtheir sciences. But what has taken place, it should becarefully noted, is not a Europeanizationof Japan. The new Japan is an evolutionof the old. The Japanese to-day in theirinnermost life, in their deepest instincts,and in their modes of thought are stillan Oriental people. 750. Chino-Japanese War of 1894 ; aMongolian Monroe Doctrine. — In 1894came the war between Japan and chief cause of this war was Chinascla
Mediaeval and modern history . litical institutions ofthe West. She has adopted almost entirethe material side of the civilization of theWestern nations and has eagerly absorbedtheir sciences. But what has taken place, it should becarefully noted, is not a Europeanizationof Japan. The new Japan is an evolutionof the old. The Japanese to-day in theirinnermost life, in their deepest instincts,and in their modes of thought are stillan Oriental people. 750. Chino-Japanese War of 1894 ; aMongolian Monroe Doctrine. — In 1894came the war between Japan and chief cause of this war was Chinasclaim to suzerainty over Korea and herefforts to secure control of the affairs ofthat country. But under the conditionsof modern warfare, and particularly in view of the Russianadvance in Eastern Asia, the maintenance of Korea as an inde-pendent state seems to Japan absolutely necessary to the securityof her island empire. The situation is vividly pictured in thesewords of Okakura-Kakuzo, the author of The Awakening of Jap a7i:. Fig. III. — The Impe-rial Regalia of Japan 2^(After a drawing by GojiUkitd) SJ This regalia consists of a mirror, a sword, and several tusk-shaped jewels. Ofall the royal or imperial regalias in the world, this is the simplest, and the mostsymbolic and historically interesting. According to Japanese legend, the imperialemblems were a gift of the Sun-goddess to an ancestor of the first Emperor of goddess accompanied the bestowal of the symbols with these words: Lookupon this mirror as if it were my own spirit, and reverence it as you would my own
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