. Things seen in Japan . Andmany of the working folk are yet unspoiledin their simplicity of life, and still retainmuch of the picturesqueness and charm M3 Country Life in Japan which have in the past made them sointeresting a study for traveller and studentalike. Although modern Japan is 80changed from what it was even twenty-five or thirty years ago, and althoughmodernity, and all that the word maybe held to imply, has so great and appa-rently irresistible an attraction for themore highly educated and official classes,the workaday life of the countryside, andof the shops, fields, and factori
. Things seen in Japan . Andmany of the working folk are yet unspoiledin their simplicity of life, and still retainmuch of the picturesqueness and charm M3 Country Life in Japan which have in the past made them sointeresting a study for traveller and studentalike. Although modern Japan is 80changed from what it was even twenty-five or thirty years ago, and althoughmodernity, and all that the word maybe held to imply, has so great and appa-rently irresistible an attraction for themore highly educated and official classes,the workaday life of the countryside, andof the shops, fields, and factories, has littleto do with that form of Western civiliza-tion which is represented by electricity,Krupp guns, and mammoth battleships. Whatever the future may hold for Japanin the way of feverish commercial activity,the extinction of the geisha, and the de-struction of the quaint and picturesque,fortunately these things are not yet. Ar-tistic production goes on still; all is notwholesale manufacture, and the American 144. ,, ,., . London & Xeiv yor/i, RETURN (fl Illi; 1 ISIIIM; UOATS at SINSKT. Ilic men fish with hues and also nets, which may be seen hanging on the masts to dry. Country Life in Japan ** bar-tenders have not yet ousted thegeishas of the tea-houses. But, as arecently returned traveller from Tokioremarked, a great and significant changeis coming over modern Japan, one whichmay transform her industries whilst threat-ening her arts, and those who wish to seeJapan as she once was must not postponetheir visit indefinitely. But at present the people remain as theywere when Japanese sea-power and Japanesedomination in Korea were thinc^s unthoughtof. They are industrious, painstaking,frugal, having simple needs and equallysimple ways of satisfying them. TheTrades Union has not yet entered Japan,and the English workman would regardwith wonder the possibility of living com-fortably and happily on a wage amountingto threepence or fourpence a day. Andyet many a Japanese wo
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